Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 13:46:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Hans Huebner <hans@artcom.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12GB EIDE Hard Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505134545.25528O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0yWfAp-00000nC@mail.artcom.de>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Hans Huebner wrote: > 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. I was going to ask this: > 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? I've had two or three Bigfoots in Compaqs blow up in my face. I don't trust them. I suppose that the patch is about ready for -stable. It may already be there for all I know. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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