Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:17:01 -0700 From: Leonard Chung <leonard@ssl.berkeley.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001010130349.04144c30@yikes.com> In-Reply-To: <20001010105641.A26557@tao.thought.org> References: <200010100509.XAA18135@harmony.village.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20001009190324.028c6d58@yikes.com> <200010100509.XAA18135@harmony.village.org>
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I've had good luck with Quantum and IBM IDE drives. I've had mixed results with Maxtor HDs (not in terms of reliability but with extremely high latency on their controller), along with WD hard drives. Some WD hard drives are actually relabeled IBM IDE HDs, so YMMV. The easy way to tell the difference is if you look at the PCB and find that one of the chips is covered by a yellow plastic cover, then it's likely an IBM HD. Leonard At 10:56 AM 10/10/2000, Gary Kline wrote: >On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:09:07PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <4.3.2.7.2.20001009190324.028c6d58@yikes.com> Leonard Chung > writes: > > : Almost all modern IDE and SCSI drives use the same drive mechanism > between > > : them, so their reliability is the same. > > > > I've had way more problems with IDE drives going south than SCSI. > > Most of the IDE drives still are 5400rpm, while most scsi drives run > > at 7200 or 10000. The low end of scsi is higher than the low end of > > IDE. The low end of IDE redefines junk. > > > > This seems true of most things you can buy. If IBM and Seagate > are among the high-end, what brands would you avoid? > > gary > > >-- > Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix -- Leonard Chung - <leonard@ssl.berkeley.edu> SETI@home - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence @ home http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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