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Article #278Re: Dual processors ?
From: John-Paul Stewart
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:22
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:22
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George Bell wrote: > > Floyd Davidson wrote: > > > > > Mine were not exactly expensive... I watched ebay for awhile, and bought > > used 9mb SCSI2 lvd drives. Something like $30 each... > > > > > > But don't you need a special SCSI raid controller and aren't they real > expensive? I saw one at a website for about $500. Can you somehow > implement raid 5 with more than one ordinary SCSI controller(As you can > see I'm a newbie when it comes to SCSI, and I'm thinking of trying it out). You can implement software RAID 5 with the Linux 'md' driver. You only need three or more disks (SCSI or IDE). For IDE, you should have each disk on its own channel. For SCSI setups, you really only need one "ordinary" SCSI channel.
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