Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 21:52:24 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, john@zyqad.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950813214105.9552x-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508122028.NAA06843@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > > In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950812133650.9552d-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, -V > > > ince- writes: > > > > I forgot who mentioned on the list that 4 GB was the limit. What > > > >brand is the 9GB SCSI on news.cdrom.com? > > > > > > Sorry? They're lying/mistaken. It used to be a 2GB limit (not 4 - they > > > were unsigned ints), but that restriction vanished quite a while ago > > > (somewhere between 2.0 and 2.0.5). AFAIR, it's now 1TB. > > > > Oh okay, then that wouldn't be a problem to use a 9GB drive. > > > > > And the drive is a Micropolis 1991. > > > > Hmmm, are they pretty good and quiet of a drive or would I be > > better off with a Seageate or Quantum (If they make one)? > > _The_ 9G drive to have is the Micropolis 1991. Quantum does not > make a drive in this capacity (or didn't as of my last product brief > update 4 weeks ago) and I wouldn't trust 9G of data to Seagates version > of the 9G drive. [About the only Seagate I will even sell right now is > the Hawk series as it has shown to be one of Seagates good drive lines] Now what's wrong with Seagates 9GB drive since I thought only the Barracuda's had problem while the 9GB was another series of drives altogether and isn't Seagate drives using the CDC/Imprimus technology they bought many years ago? 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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