Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:00:43 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FFS questions Message-ID: <199808272300.XAA00594@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:31:59 MST." <Pine.NEB.4.02.9808272231290.7077-100000@ascetic.portal.ca>
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> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > The position table and all the optimisations related to second-guessing > > the behaviour of the disk are now pessimisations in most cases, and > > should be eliminated entirely. > > Ooo...you're going to regret that when you do your VAX 11/750 port! :-) Thanks, but I've already proven my manhood by lugging an RA81 (in a 4" cabinet) upstairs myself; I don't need to do it again. Actually, come to think of it, aren't surviving storage options for those systems getting a bit thin on the ground? For a Q22 system, you've got the RQDX[234], but the old RD54's must be quite rare now (I had several, all long dead). The '53 was too small back then, let alone now. For Unibus you could do SMD I guess (Emulex MD21, etc), but they're very hard to get now, and most of the SDI disks I can think of that are likely to still be alive are going to be of the variety that lie about their geometry anyway. Oh, and sysinstall wouldn't fit on a DECtape anyway. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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