On Wed 2000-08-09 (23:30), Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > simultaneously. Using two SCSI hostadapters, it would thus be
> > possible to access 14 disks at the same time, more than IDE
> > interfaces would allow - and without the geometry hassle, we hope.
>
> The CERN has created a setup where they have 20 IDE disks connected to
> the same PC, by using a motherboard with 6 PCI slots, full of
> IDE controllers, with an on-board network adapter.
Yes, but these disks aren't expected to be changed. That's not what
we're planning to do: read data from field disks (which won't stay
in the CC because they belong elsewhere, and which _may_ have different
geometries - and we definitively don't want to re-boot the box every time
we change disks, that's what we did up to now, can be quite embarrassing
if you have about 100 disks to handle)
>
> > How reliable are those converter beasts?
>
> Aren't those expensive ?
About $99
Steffen, who expects a sample rsn
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