[Aurora-sparc-user] Enterprise 4500

[Lamar Owen]

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 15:51:15 Joacim Melin wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> I'm happy to report that I hauled a fully working StorEDGE 1000 home
> today complete with 12 drives (got it for free.. yayyy!).
>
> Now, about installing Aurora on this beast, enabling software RAID and
> SMP.. can it be done?

Yes to all of the above.  Now, you may very well need a differential SCSI card 
to use that StorEDGE drive array; my two D1000's both use diffSCSI.  Is your 
box a D1000 or an A1000?  

I've done fairly large software RAID volumes with an E5500 (essentially an 
E4500 in a nice rack with controls and CD on the rack) and a pair of D1000's 
loaded with 24 36GB drives; worked very well.  Using split bus and four 
diffSCSI controllers on four separate I/O cards yielded very respectable disk 
I/O bandwidths of 70+MB/s writes.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Chief Information Officer
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
http://www.pari.edu