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- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:38:24 -0800 (PST)
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Upgrade outage for News
This is just a reminder that we will be taking the news server down later
this evening to add a 100-base-T card in an attempt to solve one particular
bottleneck wherein a 45mb/s satellite feed is attempting to squeeze through a
10mb/s ethernet pipe.
I fully do not expect this to resolve all the news issues, but should help
somewhat.
Further resolution is going to require different hardware. One item I'm
trying to find, some years ago I saw these boxes that you would put like ten
EIDE drives into and it had controllers for each drive, would strip them into
one large drive and then it had a SCSI interface that made it look to a host
like one large SCSI drive.
I can get 60GB EIDE drives now for $179 so this is one cost-effective way
we could put together a useful sized news spool.