[rescue] SGI... sweet!

[Brian Harrington]

--On Wednesday, July 4, 2001 11:32 AM +1000 Robert Rose <rr at rits.com.au> 
wrote:

> It was a thought as I have a nice AMI PCI raid controller with a large
> cache and a dual PPro box both doing nothing at the moment. I've got a
> stack (6) of Seagate ST34573WC (4Gb 7200rpm, although according to
> Seagate, this model was never available with SCA) disks to use, should be
> enough to get started with. All I have to do is find or build an
> enclosure for them and the SCA backplane to go in. Is there an LVM
> available standard in Irix or is more dollars?

Striping is free, but mirroring (the XLV plex option) costs money.  So you 
should be in good shape for video capture.  You'll want to look at the 
xlv_mgr command.

                    -- Brian