Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:50:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New drives Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960407214743.17271D-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604080116.DAA01832@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Chuck Robey wrote: > > It's time to bring out the checkbook and do some upgrading. I looked in > > the computer shopper, and there's some good deals on Fujitsu drives, so I > > though I might pick up a 2 G model. I know they carry a 5 year warranty, > > I was wondering if anyone knows anthing too negative about them? > > My machine at work has one of these Fujitsu's. It's a 7200 rpm drive, > and as such really a ``hot iron''. I've put an additional fan aside > it when i was mounting yet another disk below the Fujitsu. > > However, it runs fine. OK, it sounds like Fujitsu is the way to go, then. Any Pentium motherboards that anyone particularly likes? Things like external cache that really operates, ED0 ram that actually works? I want PCI of course, and I think that the NCR disk controller sounds good. Something about compatibility with the NCR controller comes to mind, needs a certain BIOS maybe? > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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