I've got an old box I use as a router, very-low-duty server, and host for my
personal domain. 486 motherboard, with AMD 5x86/133 processor and 64Mb RAM.
The heaviest load it carries is hosting a 20-user mailing list that sees
about a dozen messages a week, and occasionally doing a little 10Mb Ethernet
routing to hook another box to the Internet over the 33.6k modem link.
It's subject to frequent reformats and rebuilds because I have to test
things, and since I'm administrating NT at this job and not Unix so much
anymore, it's been running NT for a while.
Since I now have a laptop with NT Server on it, I'm gonna switch that box
back to Linux so it'll run properly.
Looking through all my spare hardware laying around, I've been trying to
come up with the optimal setup for this without spending any more money for
a few months (baby due in 4 weeks, diapers are more important than SCSI
drives.)
Here's my mix:
Dual IDE adapters on the motherboard.
2 2.1Gb EIDE drives.
1 340Mb IDE drive.
1 24x ATAPI CD-ROM
1 IDE-based QIC 3080 drive
1 IOMega Ditto Max with Ditto Dash DX card (PNP version, unfortunately, you
can only get the jumpered version if you beg technical support)
The ideas I've had have pretty much come down to this:
2.1 Gb and 340 Mb on first controller, 2.1 Gb and CD on second, Ditto Max on
it's own card, QIC 3080 saved for a rainy day. 2.1's striped, 340 holds /,
/boot/ and /swap, with /usr on the stripe set and /var symlinked to /usr.
OR:
2.1 Gb and CD on first controller, 2.1Gb and QIC 3080 on second, 2.1Gb split
up so / and /boot are on first and /swap is on second, the rest striped, use
Ditto Max to prop doors open with until I set up another box somewhere, save
340Mb for building a cheap-ass X-terminal someday.
Yes, I'm quite aware that I'm overloading IDE's capabilities somewhat here.
Does anybody have any useful opinion on this that doesn't begin with "buy a
SCSI controller and all new peripherals"? :-)
Is it possible to set up a cheap IDE controller as a tertiary controller,
and make this mess see it? If so, it seems to me that I could stick the
340Mb and 3080 on primary, one 2.1Gb and CD on secondary, and the other
2.1Gb on tertiary, and have screaming-fast speed except when copying from CD
to /usr or backing up /.
Or should I just blow off the spare 2.1Gb for a rainy day, put the 340Mb and
3080 on primary, 2.1Gb and CD on secondary, and get the damn Ditto Max out
of my life since it's caused me nothing but grief?
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