From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Feb 18 18:24:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13093 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12991 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:24:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00219; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:54:10 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA12688; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:54:09 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980219125408.65174@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:54:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Tom Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, dunham@dunham.org Subject: Re: very slow scsi performance References: <19980219114036.07982@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Tom on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 06:02:55PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 February 1998 at 18:02:55 -0800, Tom wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> I forwarded a message to a friend who works at a large computer >> manufacturer. Here's his reply. He asked that the name of the >> manufacturer not be revealed. > ... >>> FWIW, IBM isn't perfect. We've had some serious firmware issues with >>> them at times, though Seagate is no better, and the 1.6 GB drive we're >>> now using as our smallest was initially rather fragile (while the 1.4 >>> and 2.1 were solid). This, of course, only applies to the 2.5-inch >>> drives, but it's an indication that IBM doesn't walk on water. Based >>> upon what I see internally (and I don't see everything), I'd choose >>> IBM first, Fujitsu second, Quantum third, and Seagate fourth, but that >>> ranking could easily be scrambled if you based it upon individual >>> products, rather than overall records. > > Uhh.. we are talking about SCSI drives here, not IDE. "Large computer > manufactures" put cheapo IDE junk in PCs. All the drive manufactures > build cheap IDE drives for such "large computer manufacturers". Good point. I didn't think about that. > I wouldn't touch either Seagate or IBM IDE drives. Western Digital > probably makes the best IDE drives, but that isn't saying much. IDE drives are a different matter, but I think you're still being unfair. A lot of IDE drives differ from SCSI drives only by the interface. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message