From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 12 13:29:47 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA16929 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:29:47 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA16921 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:29:45 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA06843; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:28:25 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508122028.NAA06843@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, john@zyqad.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "-Vince-" at Aug 12, 95 02:01:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1231 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > In message , -V > > ince- writes: > > > I forgot who mentioned on the list that 4 GB was the limit. What > > >brand is the 9GB SCSI on news.cdrom.com? > > > > Sorry? They're lying/mistaken. It used to be a 2GB limit (not 4 - they > > were unsigned ints), but that restriction vanished quite a while ago > > (somewhere between 2.0 and 2.0.5). AFAIR, it's now 1TB. > > Oh okay, then that wouldn't be a problem to use a 9GB drive. > > > And the drive is a Micropolis 1991. > > Hmmm, are they pretty good and quiet of a drive or would I be > better off with a Seageate or Quantum (If they make one)? _The_ 9G drive to have is the Micropolis 1991. Quantum does not make a drive in this capacity (or didn't as of my last product brief update 4 weeks ago) and I wouldn't trust 9G of data to Seagates version of the 9G drive. [About the only Seagate I will even sell right now is the Hawk series as it has shown to be one of Seagates good drive lines] -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD