[dba-Tech] Building a network storage device

Well, for starters these aren't IDE disks, they are SATA disks, connected to
a raid controller.  Does the raid controller report them as IDE disks?  No
se exactamente.  My raid controller can have up to 8 SATA disks connected to
it.  The controller can then divvy up the SATA disks into different raid
arrays, or use them all in one big array.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:51 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
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Hi John

It is too easy. The NASLite sees up to 4 IDE disks. That's it. Wether one or
more of these are RAID drives, doesn't matter.
It asks disk by disk if you want to use that disk. Answer Yes, and it will
be formatted and shared as Disk-n.

/gustav 

>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 13-02-2007 20:10:30 >>>
YEAaaaa!  So tell us all about it.  Put a floppy in, boot the machine, go to
another system and "there it is"?

My big question now is how the installation of a raid controller will impact
this "load a floppy" thing.  The other question in my mind is performance
and the like.  If I create a raid array, it is a blank slate, there are no
volumes.  Will it appear as a "huge hard disk" to Linux?  If so then how
does it get formatted and partitions created?  AFAIK all of that has to
happen on the local computer, i.e. a windows machine is not allowed to
format a drive on a system out on the network.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:46 PM
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and now its working :)

thanks everybody :)

Lembit

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> AAAAAAAAAAhhhaaaa,
> well, I wondered what all these versions were (can understand FTP), so 
> I assumed wrongly that NFS must be the right one.
> Thanks a lot.
> I will then try it with SMB.
>
> Lembit
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Carbonnell" <carbonnb at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a network storage device
>
>
>> On 2/13/07, Lembit Soobik <lembit.dbamail at t-online.de> wrote:
>>> on the NASlite-drive?
>>> how do I do that? it doesnt have Windows on it or any OS except the 
>>> NASlite.
>>> the manual sais that all data is accessible to wverybody on tha 
>>> network without pasword or anything.
>>
>> Which NSALite version did you get?
>>
>> You will need the SMB version to use it via Windows Explorer.
>>
>> There is also an FTP and NFS version.
>>
>> Make sure you have the right one.


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