On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Andrei A. Dergatchev wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for you answers ! > > My machine is SX.
Ok, I've only used it in EV6 boxes so far, but you should be OK.... > Yeah, it's not very well suited perhaps, > with video/network/SCSI and now QLA I don't have any PCI > slots left :-( > 400 GB is a huge array :-) ! You must be using 73 Gig drives ? 36GB actually, in 2 racks. > I'm hoping to get a few 73 Gig Seagates for my enclosure. > I wonder do you have Quantum, IBM or Seagate drives ? Would > be interesting to compare them between each other one day. I don't know who made them, I'm borrowing them for a while from a Network Appliance box, so they all report themselves at NetAPP disks, though I'm guessing NetAPP didn't really make them (as another note I have the array setup with ext3, and so far things are going well). --rdp > I found QLA2200 Series > - Software Installation Guide > - Hardware Installation Guide > at http://www.qlogic.com/techsupport/documentation.html > and I hope that their description of installation for Redhat > (reading it now) will work with Debian too. > > Regards, > > Andrei > > > > Sorry, source yes, there's no Alpha binary I've ever found. As for > > experiences, can I ask what type of machine you're putting it into? I've > > run it pretty heavily, I've got about 400Gig of software RAID-0 running > > as a news server on one of these. The only problem we found was that the > > driver (as qlogic shipped it) doesn't properly handle being on the 2nd PCI > > bus. > > > > --rdp > > > -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
