Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:09:43 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Blackened" <jmw@panix.com>, "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI Hard drives Message-ID: <199810290410.XAA23629@laker.net>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:48:42 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >Sadly the firmware in the StorageTek >IBM drives is not anywhere close to the firmware shipped in regular >SCSI drives so mail order drives won't work in the StorageTek, and vice >versa. This was a "differentiation opportunity" 8o( >I also have a 9G DCHS09W (fast/wide, not Ultra, 7200 RPM). Had it to do >over again would rather have two cool 4G DCAS's than one DCHS. Two 4G's >would be faster if the tasks could be split between the two. It's an old system admin *trick* to prefer more spindles so as to increase swap performance. It's nice to have swap on an otherwise not often accessed drive, i.e., not /usr, /tmp, or /. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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