[rescue] SS10 Sbus slot count

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu May 16 19:01:29 CDT 2002


On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:22:05PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > The scsi cards are to stripe two raid5 units.  One FDDI is supposed to be
> 
> First question: are you using software raid5 or hardware raid5?
> 
> If you're using software raid5 then the config is hopeless.  With hardware
> raid5 having a pair of FWD busses is overkill compared with your ability
> to move data to your networks unless all of the machines are slamming the
> server disks simultaneously.

Hardware raid5, and the machines will frequently enough be slamming the
server disks simultaneously.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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