RE: [Nolug] high-capacity disk drives & controllers

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 22:57, Pietu wrote:
> Hmm....
> Just go straight with serial ATA.

Does linux 2.4 support that yet?

> Or the latest trend, connect large capacity IDE drives to the SCSI
> controller with the adapter. IDE drives will go to 300Gb in a few months and

What adapter is that? Besides, what if the driver tries to issue Tagged
Command Queueing? IDE drives don't (or poorly) support that...

> you can easily hook up 15 of them to the SCSI controller. That should hold
> some pr0n DivX files. Perhaps have few of them there just for the parity's
> sake.

Actually, it's a Near Line Storage project at work

> SCSI drives are all still under 150Gb and relatively expensive. However,
> there are some semi valid reasons for their price.

Which is why we have 10TB worth of databases on a SAN using those
drives. My project doesn't need that much juice...

> P
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> > Behalf Of Andrew S. Johnson
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:14 PM
> > To: nolug@joeykelly.net; Ron Johnson
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] high-capacity disk drives & controllers
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've found some GT 137GB EIDE drives that are ATA/100. Are off-board
> > > ATA/133 controllers still needed to interface with these drives?
> >
> > I thought the largest drive ATA/100 could address is 128 GB.
> > Anything larger
> > would require an ATA/133 controller. Yet another in a long string of IDE
> > drive size hurdles.
> >
> > Andy Johnson
> > (no relation that I know of)

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