Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 06:59:40 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs <jdc@denver.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970703065328.27242B-100000@milehigh.denver.net> In-Reply-To: <199707031216.NAA17070@blinx.lizard.org>
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On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Darryl Bowler wrote: > > I am ordering a new hard drive to run freebsd on and I have an adaptec > > 2940 controller. I am thinking about either a 2.1 gig Western Digital > > Ultra Wide SCSI for $525, or a Quantum Atlas ultra-Wide 2.2 gig 5 yr > > warranty for $450. Does anyone have any recommendations ? I am also > > putting in a Intel EtherExpress 10/100 network card. Is this card ok ? > > > > > I hear that the IBM Ultrastar was a good, fast disk at a reasonable price. > My experience of Quantum Atlas, are that their are good disk, but get very > hot very quickly. I've used the Ultrastar...it's plenty fast for anything but a news server. We've had more problems with the Adaptec 2940 controller code in FreeBSD (scsi bus resets/timeouts) than anything else. Supposedly fixed in 2.2.2 (I'm running 2.1-RELEASE) but since this is a production machine I can't afford to upgrade via boot floopy and it seems that a few people are having problems with the 'make world' upgrade path right now (not just with "login: get_class" either :-) -- John-David Childs (JC612) @denver.net/Internet-Coach System Administrator Enterprise Internet Solutions & Network Engineer 901 E 17th Ave, Denver 80218 "I used up all my sick days... so I'm calling in dead!"
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