Re: bragging rights

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Chuck Robey wrote:

> The disks are very well worth noting.  Three of them, organized into the
> boot section and the home section.  The boot section is a 35G scsi, but
> it's 15K rpm rotation rate, which means it's blazing.  This would be
> fast enough on it's own, but it's not on it's own.  Tell me if you think
> it's the neatest, but I don't think so.  My own encomium is given to the
> home section, which is formed from two 145G scsi disks.  They are each
> only 10K rotation rate (faster than the fastest IDE, anyhow), but each
> one has it's own independent scsi bus, so that the fast that they're
> hooked together in a striped access via vinum means (in effect) I have a
> 290G drive that's, I dunno, I have to get to test, but damned fast, let
> me tell you!

Ahh, SCSI disks. You used to be able to count on (NetBSD'd) Macs for them.

~Peter Hummers
=3D=3D
So Schr=F6dinger and Heisenberg are driving around, and
Heisenberg says, "I think we just ran over a cat."
"Is it dead?" asks Schr=F6dinger.
"I can't be certain," says Heisenberg.

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