[rescue] Overkill on an SS2

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:07:51PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone see any problem with putting 46 or 92 gigs of harddrive
> > space on a ss2 running NetBSD?
> 
> Wow.
> 
> It took me three reads to actually recognice you wrote "gigs".  My brain
> kept seeing "megs" and I was thinking "Not a big problem, but it'll be
> VERY tight" =)
> 
> I don't see a problem with it, but I'd ask how the space is comprised...
> if it's lots of disks you probably want to throw in a Fast SCSI card
> or two...

We'll see what I can come up with.  The space will come from some not
yet determined number of seagate elite 23s that will be just striped.
I've thought of, but haven't decided) of throughing in a FastSCSI2
card with intergrated ethernet.  Then I could put the fast disks on a
seperate bus from the boot disk and cdrom, and additionally I could
assign one ethernet port an IP and server only flac files from it, and
have the other port and IP be used for everything else.  This would be
a somewhat crude way of getting close enough to guaranteed QOS for
playing FLAC files.  Right now my flac server and all my other files
are on one machine with one single 10mbit interface, and so FLAC files
during network copies are problematic.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd