Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:19:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com> To: ulf@Alameda.net Cc: mike@smith.net.au, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc & CAM: strange diagnostic Message-ID: <199810010719.IAA11866@bsd.synx.com> In-Reply-To: <19980930170853.A26485@Alameda.net>
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On 30 Sep, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:31:08PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> > One more argument in favor of IBM disks is that they reputedly run >> > cooler and quieter than Quantum or Seagate disks. >> >> I can't speak for the 7200 and 10000rpm IBM disks, as I have never been >> able to source them when I've been considering them. I can say that >> IBM go to considerable lengths to make their cooling data available >> (see the product pages for their drives), and they do appear to be >> comparable if not somewhat better than the competition. >> >> OTOH, we have been running a 9GB Seagate Cheetah in Freefall holding >> the CVS repository, and despite being far and away the busiest disk in >> the system it has kept its cool quite well. > > I just replaced a Barracuda 9GB disk with an IBM 18G and the drive > is very much cooler. I will put some IBM 10K 9G in later tonight. > I've 6 of them along with 2 Atlas and the 9G 10K IBM are really going hot (in all meaning of the word :)). An interesting thing is that they feature a temp. probe that can be read through status pages. Environmental 21 deg.C give a 35/37 deg.C internal temp. >> >> -- >> \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith >> \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au >> \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org >> \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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