[rescue] Sun 711

[Monty Walls]

On 01 May 2002 15:37:59 -0700
Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 15:17, Monty Walls wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 May 2002 17:06:54 -0500
> > "Shawn Wallbridge" <swallbridge at franticfilms.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Just wondering if the Sun 711 can take Ultra-160 SCSI drives and operate at
> > > U160 speeds.
> > > 
> > > I need to figure out how to get 300MB/s (uncompressed 2K video) sustained on
> > > a machine. I am thinking two U160 PCI (64/66) RAID controllers with two
> > > 711's filled with 36GB 15k rpm Cheetah's.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd opt for 2 PCI(64/66) Bus's first.
> > then 2 FC-AL adapters per bus (or U160s).  Need to allow for Murphy...
> 
> I think you'd need 3 FC-AL adapters to get 300MB/sec.  
>
 
Actually works out to 2bus's * 2 adapters = 4 adapters total....

> What sort of a machine are you going to put this in?  You shouldn't
> saturate a single 64/66 PCI bus, but there won't be a lot of space left
> over for, say, networking, or anything else.  Two PCI busses would be
> Better.  I think you'll want some pretty decent processors, and a
> boatload of ram if you're going to do this with software striping.  What
> platform are you thinking of using?  SPARC, SGI?  Not x86, we trust. 
> :-)
> 	Greg
> 
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