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Giant EIDE Hard Disks (was: RE: Question about schedule jobs)



Hello Peter,
Thanks for the explanations.
1. I was not aware that there are already 14GB hard disks with EIDE interface.
   Where can such beasts be purchased in Israel?
   (You wrote in another E-mail message that EIDE can support hard disks up
   to 128GB in size.)
2. Do you have title, author name and publisher (or ISBN#) for a server setup
   and dimensioning book, which you recommend to read?
                                                                      --- Omer
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Peter L. Peres [SMTP:plp@actcom.co.il]
Sent:	Mon October 12 1998 17:10
To:	Omer Zak
Cc:	'linux-il'
Subject:	RE: Question about schedule jobs

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Omer Zak wrote:

> Why not use SCSI hard disks?  With SCSI you can connect as many as 7
> hard disks per channel, whereas with IDE you are limited to two per channel
> (or total four per normally-configured PC).

Why do you keep advocating things you do not understand properly ? The
price of the SCSI junk will buy you a second PC with the same
configuration as the 1st one and leave some money for ice cream & lunch. 
Also, using SCSI on a server connected over ISDN (I suppose) is a pure
destilled waste of hardware and money. Moreover, the IDE solution will be
faster than SCSI on HX or VX chipsets due to the direct PCI mapping of the
driver interface. And I think that 4 * 14 GB is way enough for a Linux
mirror.

Why not pick up a book about server setup and dimensioning (possibly not
one from a hardware vendor <g>) and do some reading before you start ?

Peter