From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 16 6:16:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4709E14F04 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 06:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA53443; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:16:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912161416.PAA53443@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact) In-Reply-To: <19991216151021.A9649@relativity.student.utwente.nl> from "Dave J. Boers" at "Dec 16, 1999 03:10:21 pm" To: djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:16:15 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:02:24PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > Uhm, that wont be new WD drives, as they are exactly the same as > > IBM drives give or take the label :) > > Huh? That I didn't know. So you're saying that WD and IBM 18 Gb disks are > the same hardware? > > My disk: > > ad0: ATA-4 disk at ata0 as master > ad0: 17206MB (35239680 sectors), 34960 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > ad0: 16 secs/int, 32 depth queue, UDMA33 > > I would *love* to hear more about that. Can you point me to some info? I read it somewhere that IBM & WD has joined forces on their newer disks, funny enough WD disks now looks exactly like IBM disks :) I think this only applies to WD's expert series, but that I'm not sure of. At least the 9G AC29100D I've got is physically identical to the IBM drives I've got. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message