Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 12:42:11 +0200 (MEST) From: hans@artcom.de (Hans Huebner) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12GB EIDE Hard Drive Message-ID: <m0yWfAp-00000nC@mail.artcom.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504142240.23827X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote >On Sat, 2 May 1998, perl wrote: >> Hi, I was wondering which disk controlers supported > 8.4GB hard drives. >> I have a 12GB Quantum and would like to use it with FreeBSD. [...] >Yuck. I hate to see the performance numbers on this drive :( I'd use a >3x4GB array myself. The Quantum is cheap. It is cheap. And it is cheap. Propably the most economic way to set up a big (and silent, if that matters) audio archive. Also, the raw transfer rates of the drive are not that bad after all. We're able to read at about 5-7 MB/sec, which is quite okay for an IDE drive. Granted, the seek rates are not that good, and also the performance is not evenly distributed over the whole disk capacity. But hey, it is sooo cheap. >In response to your question, any LBA/EIDE controller should drive it. >You'll need to use FreeBSD-CURRENT (and maybe stable) to get the LBA >patches so you can acces the entire disk -- otherwise you're limited to >8GB. This is not true. We run our BigFoot on a 2.2.6-RELEASE system with a slightly updated wd driver. It works without problems (so far). Two other people are using my patched driver and did not report problems as well. Would it make sense to put that into the -stable branch? -Hans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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