Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:27:25 09/16/05
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On September 16, 2005 at 00:42:01, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On September 15, 2005 at 11:52:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 14, 2005 at 14:23:05, Joshua Haglund wrote: >> >>>On September 14, 2005 at 12:45:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On September 14, 2005 at 11:44:11, Joshua Shriver wrote: >>>> >>>>>From the previous threads it seems crafty 20 is out in binary, but is the source >>>>>available? >>>>> >>>>>I've tried the past 2 days and haven't been able to get into Dr. Hyatt's ftp >>>>>server. >>>>> >>>>>Any help is appeciate. >>>>> >>>>>Joshua Shriver >>>> >>>> >>>>I am not sure what we are going to do here. The RAID array is simply >>>>unreliable. I am probably going to copy all the non-EGTB stuff to a local drive >>> >>>Yeah, setup a mirror server, with a 500 GB hard drive. Enough of this RAID >>>crap... :P >> >>500 gigs won't do it. I already have more than that on the raid array. :) >> >>I had thought about some sort of "scripting" where I use our magnetic tape robot >>to perhaps make (say) 50 or 100 gigs available, and "rotate" the files weekly or >>something. I am not sure yet however. Still looking at options... > >You can buy 4 400Gb IDE/ATA drives for $240 each, plus extra IDE/ATA controller >for 4 devices for $25. $1k for ~1.5Tb. Use it all if you have a backup, or run >software RAID. With RAID you'll still have more than 1Tb. > >No clever device controllers or drivers that can go wrong. > >Thanks, >Eugene What I plan on trying is this: The current raid array has 8 250gb IDE drives. I'm going to remove 'em. I have my old ALR quad pentium-pro 200mhz box that is unused. It is _big_ with enough room to hold 16 drives or more. The problem I will have to resolve is the IDE cable length limit issue and see if I can find a way to mount the 8 IDE drives so that they are close enough to a couple of PCI IDE controller boards so that the cables will reach. If I can do that, I'll install SuSe 9.3, which is what I now use everywhere, and fire it up. Whether I resort to software raid or not I'll think about. Probably raid 0 will work fine since I should have a solid backup of everything and not be worried about disk failures. More as I (hopefully) make progress... > >>> >>> >>> >>>>on the ftp box to get ftp back up. I might even copy the 3-4-5 piece tables >>>>over. But there will be no room for the 6's until we can get this 2tb raid >>>>system fixed, if that is possible...
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