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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:06:37 -0500
From:      Denny <denny@kewanee.net>
To:        Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Caviar Hard Drives
Message-ID:  <19980925190637.A29416@kewanee.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.980924195436.24955A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>; from Jonathan Fosburgh on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 07:56:49PM -0500
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.95q.980924195436.24955A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>

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Quoting Jonathan Fosburgh (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU):
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> 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....)

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Regards,

Denny Reiter
denny@kewanee.net
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