From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: How to configure 36 disks ? Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:22:08 -0400 Message-ID: <49C7B730.7030506@rtr.ca> References: <174852.24274.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Raz , Bill Davidsen , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux RAID Mailing List , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-aio@kvack.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" To: Jon@eHardcastle.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <174852.24274.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-linux-aio@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Jon Hardcastle wrote: > I'd like to understand how you even go attaching that many devices to a system.. I am 'comparatively' new to this.. and have a 6 raid5 system.. not enterprise.. and i have slammed into case/power/sat slot issues already. What sort of hardware must one use to grow to a 36 array system! .. Here's one way: -- four onboard SATA ports -- plus four add-in PCI/PCIX/PCIe 8-port Marvell SATA cards. -- and a honkin' huge PSU! :) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux AIO, see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ Don't email: aart@kvack.org