From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 9:23:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from postal.incyte.com (postal.incyte.com [198.31.37.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E72037B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:23:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bl@incyte.com) Received: from blah.incyte.com (blah.incyte.com [10.99.1.40]) by postal.incyte.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3PGNEE06616; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blah.incyte.com (bl@localhost) by blah.incyte.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA80115; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104251623.JAA80115@blah.incyte.com> X-Authentication-Warning: blah.incyte.com: bl owned process doing -bs X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 15k rpm Drives In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:48:44 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:23:16 -0700 From: "Brett G. Lemoine" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 11:02 AM -0700 4/24/01, Stephen H. Kapit wrote: > >Are there any issues with using the Cheetah 15k rpm drives with freebsd > >in an external raid array? > > If the array is of reasonable size, you may need to file an EIR, due to > the possibility of gyroscopic effects slowing the Earth's rotation. Of > course, much of this problem can be alleviated by proper attention to > the drives' orientation... We should see how many people we can get to orient their drives to maximize the slowing... I could use a few more hours in the day. bl -- //====== Brett G. Lemoine -=- ===============================\\ || Info. Systems Architect | || ||Core Unix System Services| If at first you don't succeed, || || Incyte Genomics | destroy all evidence that you tried. || || Palo Alto, California | || |+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+| \\== PGP Key Fingerprint: 68 A1 2A 2D 82 CE E9 70 5B 80 D1 11 EC F3 FB 85 ==// To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message