From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Aug 28 02:51:45 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA17217 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 02:51:45 -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 CAA17209 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 02:51:42 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA00607; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 02:50:55 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508280950.CAA00607@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball, any good? To: ck@toplink.de (Christian Kratzer) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 02:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508280844.KAA00864@toplink1.toplink.de> from "Christian Kratzer" at Aug 28, 95 10:44:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1795 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi > > sorry about the previous empty message. > > > Hi, > > > > I can get a nice deal on a quantum fireball 1080S. Are they any good > > performancewise? Any known flaws with respect to FreeBSD (2.0.5)? > > It will be connected to a NCR53c825 on a Dell 90Mhz pentium. > > > I have two of them in my 2.0R system. I don`t have any performance > data handy but here's something else. > > I did have serious problems when I tried installing. After I had partioned > them and booted for the second time FreeBSD kept crashing on the fsck > of /dev/sd0e. Actually you could hear the spindle motor stop as if somebody > had turned to power off. After going nuts over a weekend I finally managed > to get the installtion going by manually running newfs and fsck. > > Perhaps somebody could comment on the reliability of this drive. I am > running a newsfeed into a 800MB partition on one of these drives. It's > taking quite a hammering when a batch of new articles comes in. Oh, I forget to mention this in my other reply, anytime I see a drive manuafacture drop performance, price and reliabilty numbers for a new series of drives vs what they had been shipping it scares me BIG TIME about those drives. The fireball/lightning series in effect replaced the Empire/ProDrive series on the low end of Quantums scale. Along with it came a warranty reduction from 5 years to 3 years, a drop in MTBF numbers from 500k to 300K, and a huge price drop. Now you go figure it... is it Quantum wanting to break into the PC disk drive market in a bigger way, or is Quantum going to forsake it's reputation and start selling junk drives? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD