On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Gregory Hicks wrote:
>
> > [Hugh Sasse wrote:]
> > OK, I think we only have c0t0d0s* on that machine, so I'm a bit stuck.
> > I thought that might be the case.
>
> Hugh:
>
> If you have the Sun PCI SCSI board, that comes with two SCSI controllers...
>
> In any case, try and get a second drive for the temp drop dir.
That's in progress, as far as possible...
>
> > Enabling server mode is not possible given some types of client (from
> > my reading of the docs). I don't know all the clients people use, so
> > I must err on the side of caution. Or is that paranoid in 2006?
>
> I have to state that this is not the be-all, end-all of clients served,
> but we have a quite diverse user population here. I have found - via
> the school of hard knocks - that the only client that the current
> qpopper does NOT support is the old Z-Mail. (I finally, 10 years after
> the fact, got these users to upgrade to a more modern MUA... Z-Mail
> went out of business in 1996...)
that's encouraging. I can't see anything logged about the MUA, but then
IIRC it's not part of the SMTP or POP protocols to declare it, so I wouldn't
see it logged.
>
> Now I have to preface this with a "YMMV", but all 'modern' pop3 clients
> should work with the current qpopper - including Outlook (even though I
> would not wish this client on my worst enemy...)
And if it blows up I tell them we need a new machine to handle the load
with server disabled. ;-)
>
[...]
> > Thanks. I'm not au fait with disk internals, and thought that some
> > disks may have many heads, not just to read one cylinder at a time,
> > but possible several. Access time is a market (selective) pressure
> > on disks.
>
> Well, they DO have multiple heads, but only one arm that these heads
> are mounted on. Best bet is to get multiple spindles.
Agreed. Thanks.
>
> Oh well...
>
> Regards,
> Gregory Hicks
>
Hugh
