From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 28 17:55:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DFA37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:55:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF7D43E42 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9T1s9DF061085; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:54:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g9T1s75v061082; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:54:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:54:07 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Chuck Robey , "Wilkinson,Alex" , Subject: Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ? In-Reply-To: <1035856320.77698.49.camel@chowder.localdomain> Message-ID: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,X_AUTH_WARNING,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK,PORN_10, NO_MX_FOR_FROM,AWL version=2.31 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives > are pretty unreliable though. > Hrmm, I havn't tried those, but just about every WD drive I've used has ended up with problems which were of course handled by the warranty, but even then, I still had to reinstall the os and pull a bunch of stuff from my backups which was a pain to do for each failure. Like I said, just my personal experience. I don't think the new 8MB cache drives have been out long enough to actually develop the problems I've seen on WD drives though. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message