Re: OT: USB/Firewire external hard drives for 10g RAC testing - any recommendations?

From: dba1 mcc <mccdba1_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:32:37 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20041206153237.37317.qmail@web60802.mail.yahoo.com>

I did discuss with "Lacie" tech support engineer. He told me no matter which firewire product they have (80GB, 160Gb, 200, 250 GB) it ONLY support "one host login" at same time (even have Oxford 911 chip).

Are you successfully use "Lacie" and setup RAC? Which model of "lacie" you use?  

• Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:

>
> We do a lot of our non-software-development RAC work
> with Firewire
> drives and the LaCie are the best, both in terms of
> performance and
> stability.
>
> The only real requirements are that the sbp2 chipset
> on the firewire
> drive supports multiple login, which most these days
> do. USB will not
> work, by the way, only Firewire (though the combo
> firewire/USB drives
> should work no problems). The preferred drive we
> use is the LaCie
> porsche:
>
> http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10384
>
> in varying sizes. The big benefits are the small
> form factor, while
> still being a normal hard drive, and the
> stackability. It's also quiet
> enough for our developers to share their desks with
> them without
> complaining.
>
> The last note is that if you're using redhat es/as
> 3, I'd recommend
> upgrading to the latest version of the kernel, as we
> saw a number of
> high I/O stability problems when dealing with
> multiple firewire drives
> in our testing environment. Upgrading to (looks at
> a node) 2.4.21-20
> (the unsupported tree) fixed that entirely for us.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matthew Zito
> GridApp Systems
> Email: mzito_at_gridapp.com
> Cell: 646-220-3551
> Phone: 212-358-8211 x 359
> http://www.gridapp.com
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Paul Drake wrote:
>
> > Need some space in a hurry, and I'd like to be
> able to play with RAC
> > over USB/Firewire.
> > This article
> > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/
> > hunter_rac.html#Hardware%20&%20Costs
> > recommends a Maxtor Onetouch unit.
> >
> > Anyone care to share their experiences?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Paul
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