[K12OSN] Understanding ethernet - terminology and cables

[Gary Frederick]

Will do. A good idea that I would not have thought about. :-)

I do not know what they are yet. I was told they have a lot of disk and 
plenty of memory. We don't need much power, this will be partly a setup 
to see how things work/ learn.

Gee - I didn't even think about learning about raid. woo hoo!

Gary

Dale Sykora wrote:
> Gary Frederick wrote:
> 
>> I am supposta get some Compaq servers - quad?
> 
> Gary,
>     Assuming your Compaq servers have raid/scsi controllers and multiple 
> pci busses, I would put the Gb ethernet card into a pci slot on a 
> seperate bus from the raid/scsi controller.  This should better balance 
> the io traffic.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dale
> 
> 
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