Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:40:04 BST From: Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk> To: hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Drive recommendation Message-ID: <mFEBA1C04@longacre.demon.co.uk> References: <199608032143.VAA20165@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov>
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Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote: >>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> writes: >>> http://www.internet.net/cgi-bin/getNode?node=110404&product_id=36756 > Steve> Do they really mean this? > They really do. We got one of those a few months ago (it was $299 then) > at it works just fine. It's a bit loud, but tolerable. It doesn't even > run that hot, but I do have an extra cooling fan on it just in case. > Supposedly, the trouble with the DFRS drive is every 72 hours it shuts > down for a few seconds and then restarts. Now, I've never witnessed > this while FreeBSD was running, but it does happen when I boot into DOS > ever so often. > Anyway, I'm happy with it, and even happier with the price. I'm interested in this drive as well (It's half the price of other drives the same size, and faster than any other drive I've seen at 7.5ms average.) But ISN have stopped supplying it, and anyway they don't ship out of the USA. Does anyone know of another source for these drives? I've run the usual web searches, checked pricewatch and several similar indices, and found nothing. I would also like to know exactly what interface(s) it has - the info sheet says 'SCSI2', and gives the drive's actual peak transfer rate as 12MB/s but the actual transfer rate as 10MB/s, so it must use a 10MB/s interface which AFAIK could be either SCSI2-Fast or SCSI2-Wide. I would like to be able to use it with my NCR SCSI2-Fast controller. -- Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk
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