Dear Sir,
I read your reply on the FreeBSD Hackers Mailing list and I was hoping that you could
help me with some info about the Maxattach OS and mainboard.
I have 2 maxattach nas 4000 servers, but they only have 2 disks of 20GB each
installed, which is too small to be usable nowadays...
I noticed that the SNAP Servers are far better in performance than the
MaxAttach. WinNT/2000 embedded was a nice idea, but its so bloated
I think they screwed it up a bit in its efficiency. BSDI v4.3 and FreeBSD
kernels are more up to the task (I have BSDI whick rocks in its own right).
The
Chris Dillon wrote:
We have some Quantum SNAP Servers which are exactly the same thing as
the older MaxAttach boxes except with bigger IDE drives, and they're
still running the custom version of FreeBSD on them. They actually
perform better than our much heftier Windows NT 4 servers. They
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
Uh... the version of FreeBSD on the Quantum boxes is probably the
same version of FreeBSD that was on the InterJets... *cough*.
2.2.something? :-)
Whatever version it is, I'm impressed with how well it works. The
only problem I have with the Quantum
Sorry to interrupt various flamewars with some actual technical
discussion... :-)
At ${REALJOB}, we've got a couple of Maxtor MaxAttach boxes we're trying
to play with. These are dedicated NFS/SMB servers. Physically they are
1U boxes with four 70GB IDE disks on them (wd0, wd1, wd2, wd3).
Having had to make Lilo boot Linux on these boards I have some familiarity with
them. They don't have a standard BIOS, so they don't support the standard
routines that the newer bootloader expects (e.g. memory sizing). If you have
more questions feel free to follow up off list - I doubt the
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
PS. It's crossed my mind that the staff time involved in making this
work could quickly exceed the cost of buying equivalent (maybe even
better) normal hardware. :-)
s/could/will/
If I were you I'd look at the 1U dual Xeon servers from SuperMicro.
Based on the amount of effort we had to put in, I have to agree that you're
going to have to need a _lot_ of hardware for the software effort to pay off.
-Kip
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
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