Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-17 Thread Tom Ehlert
> the Dawicontrol DC-154 PCI SATA RAID card. > Surprisingly, it says that this low end > controller supports RAID 5 - and MS DOS! > Up to 4 disks, SATA/150, Sil3114 chip... > Can use LBA48 and 33 and 66 MHz PCI bus. > RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD, with flash BIOS > Can anybody confirm this? Or does t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Gregory, Alternate just pointed me to the flyer for the Dawicontrol DC-154 PCI SATA RAID card. Surprisingly, it says that this low end controller supports RAID 5 - and MS DOS! Up to 4 disks, SATA/150, Sil3114 chip... Can use LBA48 and 33 and 66 MHz PCI bus. RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD, with flas

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-16 Thread David C. Kerber
See below... > -Original Message- > From: gdmellott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:25 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage? > > > Hi David, > > Thanks

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-16 Thread gdmellott
Hi Eric, Thanks again for responding. The only RAID cards I can find that will work is the Adaptec 2400A Here is one for sale used. May go cheap. http://cgi.ebay.com/Adaptec-4-Channel-ATA-100-Raid-Card-AAR-2400A-w-32MB_W0QQitemZ220310778359QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Networking_Compone

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Thanks for responding... If you wish you can respond > to some questions I've inserted into the message. Hmmm those were hard to find, tricky quoting... ;-) Which disk size, performance and redundancy do you want? > Eric Auer-3 wrote: Why Auer-3 by the way? processors [typicall

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-15 Thread gdmellott
on asked? Or does one need to throw a switch at it to get there? > >>D > > Sincerely, Gregory D. MELLOTT > >>> -Original Message- >>> From: gdmellott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:25 PM >>> To: fr

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-15 Thread gdmellott
Hi Eric, Thanks for responding... If you wish you can respond to some questions I've inserted into the message. Eric Auer-3 wrote: > > >>Hi! > >>> ... endeavor to use FreeDOS to run older machines with K6-2 > >>No problem. > >>> processors [typically 400-500mHz], using a RAID card >> >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > ... endeavor to use FreeDOS to run older machines with K6-2 No problem. > processors [typically 400-500mHz], using a RAID card > and making some large storage Only hardware RAID supported (RAID card) but not software RAID. Also only FAT supported, no journaling or otherwise feature-rich,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-15 Thread David C. Kerber
s.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage? > > > Hi, > > I am familiar with DOS and have used FreDOS, though it was > some time ago. > What is the present outlook for an endeavor to use FreeDOS to > run older machines with K6-2 processors [ty

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage?

2008-11-15 Thread gdmellott
Hi, I am familiar with DOS and have used FreDOS, though it was some time ago. What is the present outlook for an endeavor to use FreeDOS to run older machines with K6-2 processors [typically 400-500mHz], using a RAID card and making some large storage, to archive data on over a network? I hav