Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:56:13 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hw.ata.tags, tuning(7), and IBM 60GXP drives (ATTN: Matt Dillon?) Message-ID: <20010619115613.A8971@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010619114836.E70285@malkavian.org>; from rbw@myplace.org on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:48:36AM -0700 References: <20010619114836.E70285@malkavian.org>
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--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:48:36AM -0700, brian j. peterson wrote: > 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)? >=20 > * - note that IBM has changed their hard drive model naming conventions > http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/modnum.htm I've been talking to someone at iXsystem.net (the hardware side of what used to be BSDi) and they say taged queuing should work and that quality seems to be good, unlike the 75GXPs. IBM says the 60GXPs are substantialy improved from the 75GXPs and that they should avoid the quality problems. Since I'm asking for about 80 units and they currently have free on-site support, they must be reasionably confident since I doubt they really want someone visiting me once or twice a week to replace bad disks. ;-) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7L6BMXY6L6fI4GtQRAty8AKDmITzGAtaI0GvaspM3yXQGneux7ACgl48B vmL4k8YGFKEQVOLgHZvW6iI= =481G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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