Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:50:50 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com> Cc: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios <kernel@tdnet.com.br>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tired of bad qulaity hardware Message-ID: <20001001105050.A34037@titan.klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <39D16525.75080821@home.com>; from garycor@home.com on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:10:29PM -0400 References: <39D0D344.1612CE80@tdnet.com.br> <39D16525.75080821@home.com>
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:10:29PM -0400, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > > > > I am tired of buying low quality hardware or ones that does not run well > > with FreeBSD! > ... > > 2) Hard Disks. > > For my money, I'll only buy IBM hard disks now. They're quiet, > run relatively cool, and in my experience so far, have been reliable. Agreed. Am running now ad4: 43979MB <IBM-DTLA-307045> [89355/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA100 My old ad6: 39082MB <Maxtor 54098U8> [79406/16/63] at ata3-master using UDMA33 got severe read and write failures 2 weeks after warranty had finished. Replacing the ABIT HA66 UDMA-4 controller with a atapci1: <Promise ATA100 controller> additionally solved system hangs during boot which forced me to run UDMA-2 only. BTW, IBM offers you diagnose and other software on their webpage. Compared to Maxtor a real win. BTW2, does somebody know, if enabling S.M.A.R.T. (default: disabled) on the IBM drive has some performance impact ? And what does it exactly do ? Why is it disabled by default, if it seems useful ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm Powered by FreeBSD SMP Songs from our band >>64Bits<<............http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.html My homepage................................ http://people.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas Please note: Apsfilter got a NEW HOME................http://www.apsfilter.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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