From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mass storage jukebox From: Geoff Collyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:36:06 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 06e7be0c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I think optical media still make sense, especially at ebay prices. I like having automatic backup that isn't subject to head crashes. I recently bought an HP 80EX there for $500 and am about to switch my main file system to it, probably tonight. I'll also be adding a pair of 80GB IDE disks to act as a mirrored cached, since I only have one optical drive and don't want to thrash the jukebox to death. More recently I bought an HP 40FX for $150 on ebay, but it hasn't arrived yet (I was hoping to get an HP 1200EX with 10 drives, comparable to emelie, but bigger, but the bidding got out of hand). The main requirement is that you have exactly the model of crummy, ancient, lousy, oxide-flaking, 30-kilobit-per-second Sony jukebox that 1127 has or had for bootes and fornax (the one driven by /sys/src/fs/dev/sony.c) or that you have pretty much any old SCSI-2 MMC jukebox, such as the HPs. I just plugged in the 80EX, configured it and it worked (I did enable conf.dumpreread out of paranoia, but so far it's reported no errors): filsys main c[w2w3]j(w4w5)(l<0-15>l<16-31>) filsys dump o filsys other w0 : cpu; lc /n/fsb Directories: 29000 386 68000 68020 960 acme adm alpha arm cron dist i lib mail mips mnt n net.gig power rc rls sparc sys tmp usr Files: LICENSE NOTICE : cpu; lc /n/fsbdump/2002 Directories: 0917 0918 0919 0920 0921 0925 0926 0927 0928 0929 0930 1001 1002 10021 1003 10031 1004 10041 10042 10043 1005 10051 1006 1007 10071 1008 10081 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 10151 1016 : cpu;