From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 6:31:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nile.intac.com (nile.intac.com [198.6.114.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8159A15012 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 06:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gkaplan@castle.net) Received: from castle.net (parsip-usr-96.intac.com [199.173.8.167]) by nile.intac.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/ktb) with ESMTP id JAA12654 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:31:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3810675B.AE99F983@castle.net> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:32:11 -0400 From: gkaplan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Questions Subject: disk speed References: <199910212221.RAA24394@gw.emailip.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following is from tech support of the supplier of my recently purchased disk. tech wrote: > RPM speeds are normally set by the design engineer and cannot be changed. > I am not familiar with the specific drive you mention below, but from the > rpms you say are reported, it must be a laptop drive, for which 3600 rpm is > not unusual. > > At 11:47 AM 10/21/99 -0400, you wrote: > >I have an IBM-DJNA-371350 for which the disklabel (from FreeBSD) reports > >3600 rpm. My question is: Is the rpm a controllable feature of this > >drive? If it is where is the control applied? > > Does this mean that there is an cosmetic error in the output from 'disklabel' ? Is there a different list to which to which it would be more appropriate to post this message . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message