Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:00:53 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU (Mitch Collinsworth) Cc: jon@welearn.com.au, andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm), hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanna buy an EIDE harddisk ... 5400 or 7200 for home use (noise) Message-ID: <200001040100.TAA34572@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <200001032308.SAA12767@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> from "Mitch Collinsworth" at Jan 03, 2000 06:08:25 PM
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> >when, if, such ddevices become available for the scsi bus will > >the end user require doing anything special, ummm, that is take > >sepcial measures like your proposing for the 'ide' type bus > >version of these large drive devices ? i've use scsi where ever > >possible, because of the inherent reliability and performance > >(for my meager requirements) issues, such as they are. > > when/if? SCSI is ahead of IDE. I have sitting here on the floor by > my desk a box containing two 50 GB SCSI drives purchased a couple weeks > ago. I have yet to install them but as far as I'm aware from reading > the freebsd lists there are no such problems as that above with large > SCSI disks and freebsd. I'm using an array of several Ultra2 Wide SCSI 47G and 120G drives, that work just dandy. :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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