From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 20:11:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA26228 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:11:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26221 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:11:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-131.laker.net [208.0.233.31]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id XAA23629; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:10:50 -0500 Message-Id: <199810290410.XAA23629@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Blackened" , "David Kelly" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:09:43 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SCSI Hard drives Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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