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New Server – Update (5): ROC – my personal royal PitA

December 2, 2009 / posted in Compaq, computer, Configuration, hardware, Operating System, RAID, RAIDFrame, server / No Comments

Yeah, I guess it was a bit naive, but I tried it again. After successfully using the harddiscs in the Compaq DL360 without the ROC-Chip, at full speed and fully write-cached, I thought I re-insert the ROC-Chip and give it another try. I configured the harddiscs to run as a single RAID-1 drive… …and yeah, you’ll [...]

New Server – Update (4): Harddisks, SmartArray, and ROC

May 6, 2009 / posted in BSD, Compaq, computer, Configuration, experiments, harddisks, hardware, NetBSD, Operating System, pkgsrc, RAID, RAIDFrame, server, SmartArray / No Comments

In several postings in january, I wrote about a new server, which should replace the . I wrote about serious problems delaying that exchange, and these problems lay in the harddisk-performance. As I wrote, the “new” server is a Compaq DL-360 (Yes, that is the complete model-name, it is the first generation of DL-360ies) . [...]