Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 01:01:19 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950813005654.9552q-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <2600.808255243@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950812150931.9552k-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, -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
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