Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 22:16:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com> To: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> Cc: Tony Clark <tonyc@compnews.co.uk>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9gig disk for freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960529220203.1489A-100000@dympna> In-Reply-To: <199605292240.QAA04739@terra.aros.net>
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Just a personal note: Do yourself a favor and stay AWAY from the Micropolis 1991 (9GB) and 1936 (3.6GB) drives. We've replaced 15-20 (have to check to be sure) of these drives since the first of the year, accounting for 60-70% of all drive failures. FYI: the remaining failures have generally been SGI (IBM OEM) stiction drives (like the old Quantum Pro Drives from Sparc-II's we revive them by pulling them out and slinging them at arms length back and forth. When that doesn't work we hold them at 3" increasing intervals and drop them until they work or something falls off). We've also lost some OLD Wrens and had a batch of bad 'Cudas (Firmware). Finally; I'm REAL happy with the Fujistu 4.2GB drives and would recommend them highly. -- Rob Snow Sr. Systems Administrator Landmark Graphics Corporation On Wed, 29 May 1996, Dave Andersen wrote: > Someone already replied and said yes; the answer is yes. :) But as a > note of caution: One of the worst mistakes we've ever made was choosing > to use a Micropolis 9gb hard drive in two of our servers. Micropolis > built in a feature to both of the drives we purchased: They crash like > you wouldn't believe. > > Go with smaller drives (we've found drives in the 2gb-4gb range to be > perfect) and either split your files up over them, or use the ccd to > stripe them together. > > -Dave Andersen > > Lo and behold, Tony Clark once said: > > > > > > If i purchase a 9gig disk, will this be supported under freebsd 2.1.0 ? > > > > I am looking for something like a micropolis or seagate. - i already have a > > the scsi card and a 4gig disk running but i just need to know if you OS will > > support above certain disk sizes unlike SunOS 4.1.2 (about 2.5 gig) > > > > Little Tony........ > > > > [4mSystems Administrator[0m ([1mPA[0m Data Design) > -- > angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented > system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) > http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual > "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."
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