[ale] Request for info on mknod -- or How I ran out of devicenames

[Bjorn Dittmer-Roche]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Greg wrote:

> yes, I am already looking around for a case with more HD slots.  They are
> all (5) together in a caddy in the bottom of a case - fortunately there is a
> fan in front of them.  But HD run really hot (ouch ! hot ! hot !) and I
> would like something more like a scsi case where I can place them stacked in
> the back.

Don't know if this helps, but I thought they were cool:

http://servercase.com/miva/miva?/Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SC&Product_Code=BR-IDE35&Category_Code=ATA100%2F133
http://servercase.com/miva/miva?/Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SC&Product_Code=CSE-M35T-1B&Category_Code=SATA


	bjorn

>
> But that's a rainy day project.
>
> Greg
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Bjorn
> > Dittmer-Roche
> > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 7:34 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: RE: [ale] Request for info on mknod -- or How I ran out of
> > devicenames
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Greg wrote:
> >
> > > It is just a home fileserver - with some mp3s and such on it.
> > I am still
> > > trying to rebuild it from the RH 7.3 --> Libranet 2.8.1
> > migration.  It runs
> > > samba and is used mainly as a software RAID 5 backup for all of the home
> > > machines (wife has to have her game configs and Favorites backed up !!)
> > >
> > > I guess that after I get it finished I could run some tests ...
> > especially
> > > since I suspect that my harddrives are not taking advantage of
> > the UDMA 133
> > > that they should be on (the dmesg states something like they both are at
> > > UDMA 133 *and* pio) - so that is something to do after I get it
> > finished.
> >
> > Cool. I once jammed a half a dozen disks in a machine and put them all on
> > seperate controlers and the performance sucked. (but I had a lot of drive
> > space!)
> >
> > 	bjorn
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