Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:52:31 -0400 From: steinyv <steinyv@skyweb.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tandem?? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000622203654.009accb0@> In-Reply-To: <20000622160930.L845@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20000622172104.N22659@rider.dunham.org> <4.2.0.58.20000622152938.009e5a30@> <20000622172104.N22659@rider.dunham.org>
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Yes I did post in -questions a couple of days ago. Im using an EFA HX chipset motherboard using a P200 w/64M of ram, a 2940uw with bios 2.57.2. Before I used it I used the 2940's low level format and media verify, and she seems to be working. I never heard of these 'Tandem' drives before. Greg, how did you format these drives? Any and all information is welcome. Im just a newbie and I dont want to start this thing to hang on me. Thanks At 04:09 PM 6/22/00 -0700, you wrote: >On Thursday, 22 June 2000 at 17:21:04 -0500, Jerry Dunham wrote: > > On Thu, 22 June 2000 at 15:31:58 -0400, steinyv wrote: > >> Hey I just purchased some used IBM scsi drives, but in the bios it states > >> that it is a "Tandem 4265-1". > >> I called IBM that they said that I shouldn't use them. Anyone have any > >> experience with these drives. > >> Thanks all. > >> > >> I posted in hardware and got very limited feedback, so please forgive > >> me, I just need advise. > > > > All I know is that I'm running a Tandem 4255-1 on this machine (FreeBSD > > 2.2.6) and it works fine. I did nothing special to make it work that I > > can recall. > >You didn't. > > > I've had it for about 4 years and it's still humming away. The > > 4255-1 is a 2 GB IBM SCSI. I'll bet yours is fine. > >Was this posted on -questions? I haven't seen it before. > >In any case, your memory fails you. We had a lot of trouble getting >this drive to work until we figured out that it had a non-standard >sector size. We found out how to reformat it, which had the pleasant >by-product that it had about 5% more storage space afterwards. I can >dig if you like, but first I'd like to know what platform this is on. > >Greg >-- >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers _________________________________________ Steiny's Studio Pachyderm Productions http://steiny.hypermart.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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