From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 25 17:04:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12154 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kewanee.net (inwk154.inw.net [207.2.109.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12091 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:04:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from denny@kewanee.net) Received: (from denny@localhost) by kewanee.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00111; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:06:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from denny) Message-ID: <19980925190637.A29416@kewanee.net> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:06:37 -0500 From: Denny To: Jonathan Fosburgh , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Caviar Hard Drives Reply-To: denny@kewanee.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Fosburgh on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 07:56:49PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Jonathan Fosburgh (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU): > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I am considering adding a second hard drive. The current one is a Maxtor > (don't know the model) 514 Meg HD. I am considering a Western Digital > Caviar and would like to know people's experiences with these on FreeBSD. > I *presume* it would work well, given that WD is the standard, but I could > always be wrong ... > This might sound stupid, nd I can't give you a good reason, but I've always had problems mixing Maxtor & WD drives. No hard data to support it, but whenever I've done it, I've gotten really goofy errors (YMMV, this was usually under Winblows....) -- Regards, Denny Reiter denny@kewanee.net ------------------ FreeBSD: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message