* [9fans] disk mirroring
@ 2001-08-31 22:46 geoff
2001-09-01 6:22 ` William K. Josephson
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From: geoff @ 2001-08-31 22:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Does anybody have experience with the fancier Promis IDE controllers?
One line (FastTrak?) claims to implement drive mirroring, but I
don't know if this requires OS intervention, or if it just works
once you configure it via the Promis BIOS.
I've just got a version of nemo's IDE file server up and running
on a system with 2 20GB IDE drives. I've added optional mirroring
and that seems to work (I haven't yet done a thorough verification)
at a performance penalty of 8-9% real time. I just copied 275MB into
the main file system; so far everything seems to be working right.
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* Re: [9fans] disk mirroring
2001-08-31 22:46 [9fans] disk mirroring geoff
@ 2001-09-01 6:22 ` William K. Josephson
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From: William K. Josephson @ 2001-09-01 6:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:46:45PM -0700, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> Does anybody have experience with the fancier Promis IDE controllers?
> One line (FastTrak?) claims to implement drive mirroring, but I
> don't know if this requires OS intervention, or if it just works
> once you configure it via the Promis BIOS.
The version with which I am familiar require configuration through the
BIOS and an appropriate driver. I think both FreeBSD and Linux have a
driver now.
-WJ
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