From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 11 10:25:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22642 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:25:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.visigenic.com (odin.visigenic.com [204.179.98.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA22636 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from VSI48 (vsi48.visigenic.com [206.64.15.185]) by odin.visigenic.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA15767 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:24:30 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970711102604.009ca270@visigenic.com> X-Sender: toneil@visigenic.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:26:04 -0700 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Tim Oneil" Subject: Re: sd0 timed out while idle In-Reply-To: References: <199707111345.JAA11417@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:28 AM 7/11/97 -0700, you wrote: > >On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Jamie Bowden wrote: > >> The 2.5G Bigfoot drives were fine and ran very cool. The Quantum SCSI >> drives are the ones that have overheating problems. > > Bigfoot drives are 3400rpm, which makes them cool, and really slow. > > Until, I saw the Bigfoot specs, I had no idea that anybody made anything >slower than 5400rpm these days! I've heard that about fireballs, but I have a two drive system sitting in my house without air conditioning (its been a bit hot here lately) and haven't had a problem. The system is in a stock case, ie; only the usual two fans, one at the p/s and one at the cpu. And I like this quantum for its speed.