From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 00:01:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA18054 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 00:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA18036 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 00:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA00541; Thu, 30 May 1996 00:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:03:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Rob Snow cc: Dave Andersen , Tony Clark , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9gig disk for freebsd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Rob Snow wrote: > Wrens and had a batch of bad 'Cudas (Firmware). Finally; I'm REAL happy > with the Fujistu 4.2GB drives and would recommend them highly. Mildly amusing. I had to take all the Fuji 4.2GB disks out of my RAID array because they kept failing under stress. Replaced them with Quantum atlas, and it's been working well. Kind of cracks me up how one person's nightmare is another person's gift-from-above... :) > > -- > Rob Snow > Sr. Systems Administrator > Landmark Graphics Corporation > > > On Wed, 29 May 1996, Dave Andersen wrote: > > Someone already replied and said yes; the answer is yes. :) But as a > > note of caution: One of the worst mistakes we've ever made was choosing > > to use a Micropolis 9gb hard drive in two of our servers. Micropolis > > built in a feature to both of the drives we purchased: They crash like > > you wouldn't believe. > > > > Go with smaller drives (we've found drives in the 2gb-4gb range to be > > perfect) and either split your files up over them, or use the ccd to > > stripe them together. > > > > -Dave Andersen > > > > Lo and behold, Tony Clark once said: > > > > > > > > > If i purchase a 9gig disk, will this be supported under freebsd 2.1.0 ? > > > > > > I am looking for something like a micropolis or seagate. - i already have a > > > the scsi card and a 4gig disk running but i just need to know if you OS will > > > support above certain disk sizes unlike SunOS 4.1.2 (about 2.5 gig) > > > > > > Little Tony........ > > > > > > Systems Administrator (PA Data Design) > > -- > > angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented > > system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) > > http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual > > "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'." > > >