From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 12 21:59:07 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA09873 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 21:59:07 -0700 Received: from penzance.econ.yale.edu (penzance.econ.yale.edu [130.132.32.100]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA09863 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 21:59:05 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 01:01:19 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Gary Palmer cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine In-Reply-To: <2600.808255243@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > In message , -V > ince- writes: > > Is Micropolis pretty reliable though? What drives does wcarchive > >and freefall use? > > Dunno. One sector seems to be coming up repeatedly as bad, although I > haven't scanned the logs closely enough to see if it's more than one > or not. Probably be fixed by changing the appropriate mode page to > enable auto-bad-block remapping by the drive. > > wcarchive uses 2 5.25" FH (Full Height) Micropolis 3Gb drives, 6 > Segate 5.25" FH drives (somewhere around the 2-3Gb mark) and an > assortment of Seagate Hawks and Quantum Grand Prix's. See > ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config for more. Oh okay... How are these drives actually mounted? Is it in some sort of enclosure? > freefall seems to run with Quantum drives (1 Empire 2100 and 2 > PDS1800's judging by the dmesg). Hmmm, what about memory wise on both machines? Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center