From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Aug 28 01:44:45 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA12562 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:44:45 -0700 Received: from toplink1.toplink.de (toplink1.toplink.de [194.163.120.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA12538 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:44:33 -0700 Received: (from ck@localhost) by toplink1.toplink.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA00864; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:44:08 +0200 From: Christian Kratzer Message-Id: <199508280844.KAA00864@toplink1.toplink.de> Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball, any good? To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:44:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508280816.KAA15846@nietzsche> from "Marc van Kempen" at Aug 28, 95 10:16:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1293 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi sorry about the previous empty message. > Hi, > > I can get a nice deal on a quantum fireball 1080S. Are they any good > performancewise? Any known flaws with respect to FreeBSD (2.0.5)? > It will be connected to a NCR53c825 on a Dell 90Mhz pentium. > I have two of them in my 2.0R system. I don`t have any performance data handy but here's something else. I did have serious problems when I tried installing. After I had partioned them and booted for the second time FreeBSD kept crashing on the fsck of /dev/sd0e. Actually you could hear the spindle motor stop as if somebody had turned to power off. After going nuts over a weekend I finally managed to get the installtion going by manually running newfs and fsck. Perhaps somebody could comment on the reliability of this drive. I am running a newsfeed into a 800MB partition on one of these drives. It's taking quite a hammering when a batch of new articles comes in. Greetings Christian -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TopLink GbR, Internet Services info@toplink.de Christian Kratzer Phone: +49 7452 87174 http://www.toplink.de/ Fax: +49 7452 87175 FreeBSD spoken here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------