Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:25:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, rashid@haven.ios.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 Message-ID: <199508281725.KAA01867@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199508281536.BAA23316@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 29, 95 01:06:36 am
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> > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Your barracuda has probably dropped off-line. How hot is it in your > > case, anyway? :-) These drives get VERY WARM during operation and need > > good ventilation to be happy! On hot days in badly designed cases, > > they tend to go on vacation pretty predictably. > > Just on the 'cuda thread; I had opportunity to eyeball a pile of -4's > tonight. Some observations for fans of big and fast disks, and > particularly those that have met these drives before : By -4's do you mean ``Hawk-4'' series drives? As far as I can tell the -4 in Barracuda-4 and Hawk-4 just means it is a 4G drive. > - They're quiet. (Yes, sports fans, quiet) > - They don't get very hot. (One busy unit packed in a small, > convection-cooled case with its power supply was finger-touch > warm - all of the drives had been running for over a week) That was _not_ a Barracuda drive, unless seagate did some major changes and didn't change the model name/number. Please give exact details as to seagate model number. I suspect you where looking at a Hawk drive (ST15230N), which do match the above description. > I think that Seagate may be moving in the right direction with these > puppies. (Mind you, they're as picky as all get-out about SCSI cabling > and termination 8( ) All fast scsi-ii drives are. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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