From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 19 11:48:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from malkavian.org (malkavian.org [206.136.132.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853D037B406 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Received: (from rbw@localhost) by malkavian.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5JImar16510 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:48:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:48:36 -0700 From: "brian j. peterson" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: hw.ata.tags, tuning(7), and IBM 60GXP drives (ATTN: Matt Dillon?) Message-ID: <20010619114836.E70285@malkavian.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-URL: http://rbw.myplace.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the tuning(7) manpage states that IBM DPTA and DTLA drives support the hw.ata.tags feature. it also recommends against purchasing such drives because of quality control concerns. has anyone had a chance to look at the 60GXP(*) drives and confirm both their support for hw.ata.tags and their quality (or lack thereof)? * - note that IBM has changed their hard drive model naming conventions http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/modnum.htm thanks, brian -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== | rbw aka bjp | god's final message to his creation: | | rbw@myplace.org | we apologize for the inconvenience. | ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message