From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 27 23:03:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28699 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles24.castles.com [208.214.165.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28684 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:03:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00594; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:00:44 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808272300.XAA00594@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Curt Sampson cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FFS questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:31:59 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:00:43 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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