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To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
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Subject: Re: wanna buy an EIDE harddisk ... 5400 or 7200 for home use (noise) 
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 13:17:54 -0500
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
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>Now I saw in the Magazine, that there is a similar drive available,
>with 2 MB cache and another drive which has additionally 7200 U/min.
>
>Does somebody know the following drives ?
>U92720U8, 27.2 GB, 9ms, 2MB cache, 5400 U/min DM 440.- (~ $220)
>U92732U8, 27.3 GB, 9ms, 2MB cache, 7200 U/min DM 460.- (~ $230)
>U93652U8, 36.5 GB, 9ms, 2MB cache, 5400 U/min DM 585.- (~ $290)
>U94098U8, 40.0 GB, 9ms, 2MB cache, 5400 U/min DM 635.- (~ $315)
>
>Do you think, the large drives (36.5 or 40 GB) will run under 
>FreeBSD 3.4 and 4.0 current well ???

From what we've been hearing they will probably be fine, though with
3.4 you will have to either make partitions no larger than 27 GB or
else use the new IDE driver from 4.0.

-Mitch


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