Subject: Re: RiscBSD News Server
To: Duncan Ferguson <d.ferguson@worc.ac.uk>
From: Mark Brinicombe <amb@physig.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/12/1997 14:34:46
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Duncan Ferguson wrote:
>
> have been asked whether or not i can turn this into a proper news
> server (after sticking in a 9 gig disk and so on).
>
> What problems would i have? The drive will probably have to be
> SCSI (no ide spaces left).
>
> This is a 710 with an etherh card in it.
Hi,
Ok in theory there should be no problems but ...
What SCSI card would you be using ? Currently the SCSI performance is not
good but I hope to be able to look at this in detail shortly.
The alternative would be several IDE discs on a podule. Currently on the
ICS podule is supported but I expect to support several more podules
shortly.
What time scale are you looking at ?
Then there is the etherH driver ... Thihas also caused problems but I am
currently actively writing a new driver from scratch. (I would have had
it done if it was not for BETT ;-)
Cheers,
Mark
Mark Brinicombe amb@physig.ph.kcl.ac.uk
Research Associate http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/~amb/
Department of Physics tel: 0171 873 2894
King's College London fax: 0171 873 2716