Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265341AbTF1TYm (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:24:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265342AbTF1TYm (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:24:42 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:16617 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265341AbTF1TYl (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:24:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:38:57 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" To: Larry McVoy , Scott McDermott , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030628193857.GH841@gallifrey> References: <20030627163720.GF357@zip.com.au> <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627235150.GA21243@work.bitmover.com> <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030628001625.GC18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627205140.F29149@newbox.localdomain> <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> <1056827655.6295.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030628191847.GB8158@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030628191847.GB8158@work.bitmover.com> X-Chocolate: 70 percent or better cocoa solids preferably X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.18 (i686) X-Uptime: 20:32:50 up 1 day, 50 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.06 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 938 Lines: 20 Tapes are a pain; but at the type of 40GB range is it worth considering a pile of external USB/Firewire hard drives? (I've also had some bad luck with IDE RAIDs on Linux; now that the western digital 200GBs have the new firmware on I thought they might be stable - until 800GBs of RAID fell on its face last week. We've now pulled the promise and hpt card out and replaced them with a 3ware-8 port.) Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/