Subj : Re: AmiBinkD Support
To   : Gary McCulloch
From : Ingo Juergensmann
Date : Sat May 18 2019 15:18:38

Hi Gary,

 In a message dated 16 May 19 you wrote to Ingo Juergensmann :

 GM>        How are your drives set up?  Just a DH0?  I want to get a

Well...

Mounted disks:
Unit       Size     Used     Free Full Errs   Status   Name
RAM:      1462K     1462        0 100%   0  Read/Write RamDisk
ADH0:      731M   336588  1161970  22%   0  Read/Write System3.9
ADH1:     1045M   308878  1831920  14%   0  Read/Write SysBAK
ADH4:     4181M  2375534  6187664  28%   0  Read/Write Work
ADH5:     4181M   403100  8160098   5%   0  Read/Write Data
ADH6:     8362M 12648312  4478086  74%   0  Read/Write Data2
ADH7:     8362M  9749817  7376580  57%   0  Read/Write Data3
SFSData:  8285M  9056866  7912539  53%   0  Read/Write Daten
OldDisks:   101G 18850334 193702559   9%   0  Read/Write OldDisks

Volumes available:
SA-4D-Data_12 [Mounted]
RamDisk [Mounted]
OldDisks [Mounted]
Daten [Mounted]
Data3 [Mounted]
Data2 [Mounted]
Data [Mounted]
Work [Mounted]
SysBAK [Mounted]
System3.9 [Mounted]

Basically, it's a single 500 GB SATA disk connected via a SATA<->SCSI
bridge to the A3000s SCSI.
The current layout of paritions is more due to the fact that I migrated to
the bigger disk and backupping my old SCSI disks than that it is a sane
layout at all.

However, in the past with multiple SCSI disks inside and outside of the
A3000 desktop case (IIRC 3 or 4 disks was the maximum of disks inside of
the A3000 case) there was a huge performance increase when tossing mails
when you spread out your temp, back, inbound, outbound, messagebase
directory across various disks. Todays SATA disk is fast enough to serve
the internal SCSI bus of the A3000 under any condition, I would say... ;)

 GM> picture of your set-up to best help you with Amibinkd.  Where the
 GM> program is kept and where your Netmail folders are will matter.

I think I can change the setup myself... ;-)

 GM>        I have a archive in my file section with screens and set-up
 GM> instructions that could help.  There have been some slight changes to
 GM> the amibinkd.cfg Also two scripts that run for polling and to keep the
 GM> server running.

Ah, yes... as I said: AmiBinkD is quite instable and you'll need these kind
of scripts to restart it every now and then...

 GM>        For someone like me who is still learning this networking, it
 GM> really wasn't hard.   I am soon wanting to learn how to run a HUB for a
 GM> network.

Technically running a hub is not that different from running a node with
points, but you'll face more "paperwork" you managing your hub segment,
submit it to the NC and such.

Given the current size of the FTN networks nowadays I don't think that many
hubs are needed, especially due to the change from polling via modems and
phone lines to TCP/IP based connections. But it won't do any harm if more
people would know what it means to operate a hub are are more involved with
the managing part in the background of FTN networks. YMMV.

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