From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 15:51:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mashie.force9.net (mashie.force9.net [195.166.128.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D26CB14F26 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ian@tirnanog.org) Received: (qmail 4842 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2000 23:51:38 -0000 Received: from mayfly.plus.net.uk (HELO mayfly.force9.net) (195.166.128.28) by mashie.force9.net with SMTP; 22 Jan 2000 23:51:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 32361 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2000 23:51:37 -0000 Received: from 172.01-02.quay.dial.plus.net.uk (212.159.68.172) by mayfly.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 22 Jan 2000 23:51:37 -0000 From: Ian J Greely To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jaz drives, booting from one? Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:57:11 +0000 Message-ID: <=kCKOK3WMwx2W1BDtAeEorvKeO23@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just adding my 0.02 cents worth on the reliability of the Jaz disks. =46rom personal experience of these devices on several thousand servers the failure rate of the disks is *phenominal*.=20 These are an incredibly flakey device and I would suggest that unless you intend to run the machine in a clean environment (like the Intel Plant in Leixlip!) don't do this to yourself. It's not really a case of if the device fails more a case of when. Added to this is the upgrade path Iomega have. The older 1 Gig disks are no longer being created and it is not possible to use the newer 2 Gig disks in the older device. The new device will not allow low level formatting of the older 1 Gig disks... Not a company with a "the customer is king" philosophy. *smile* If you really want "removable" buy a removable cady for hot swapable SCSI disks and a few low capacity SCSI disks. Given how expensive the media for the Jaz is it will not really make all that much difference cost-wise. Even better, forget the "hot" and buy a removable cady for IDE disks. =46or the cost of 3 X 1 Gig Jaz disks you can buy a 18Gig quantum HD. *shrug* regards, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message