From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 14 05:30:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA08876 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 05:30:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA08867 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 05:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id FAA03654 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 05:30:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Thu, 14 Nov 96 14:29 MET Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org id ; Thu, 14 Nov 96 14:29 MET Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13093; Thu, 14 Nov 96 14:22:43 +0100 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 96 14:22:43 +0100 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9611141322.AA13093@wavehh.hanse.de> To: dubois@primate.wisc.EDU Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard Newsgroups: hanse-ml.freebsd.current References: <199611122043.OAA12836@night.primate.wisc.edu> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Oh wow ! Thanks for correcting me. BTW, the German PC magazine C't made >> a harddisk test, they also gave information about the noise, the several >> disks produce (in DB and a sone factor). Be careful if you want to get >> a 4GB harddisk with 7200 U/min for home environment. >Doesn't have to be 4GB. I had a Digital 1GB 7200RPM drive that finally drove >me nuts and that I replaced last week with a 4500RPM Quantum. My god, it can't be that hard to build a harddisk with a potentiometer to set the speed (or maximum acceptable noise), or what :-) Regarding the problem some older disks have to start up, we (BSD UG Hamburg) are sure they may be solved by using a starter rope (whatever that is called in english) like chainsaws have. Only those guys who designed the new ATX form factor obviously didn't knew about it and there are no holes in the cases for it :-( Now back to coding... Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://cracauer.cons.org