From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 28 10:26:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA15417 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:26:33 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA15399 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:26:23 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA01867; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:25:23 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508281725.KAA01867@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, rashid@haven.ios.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508281536.BAA23316@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 29, 95 01:06:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1514 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Your barracuda has probably dropped off-line. How hot is it in your > > case, anyway? :-) These drives get VERY WARM during operation and need > > good ventilation to be happy! On hot days in badly designed cases, > > they tend to go on vacation pretty predictably. > > Just on the 'cuda thread; I had opportunity to eyeball a pile of -4's > tonight. Some observations for fans of big and fast disks, and > particularly those that have met these drives before : By -4's do you mean ``Hawk-4'' series drives? As far as I can tell the -4 in Barracuda-4 and Hawk-4 just means it is a 4G drive. > - They're quiet. (Yes, sports fans, quiet) > - They don't get very hot. (One busy unit packed in a small, > convection-cooled case with its power supply was finger-touch > warm - all of the drives had been running for over a week) That was _not_ a Barracuda drive, unless seagate did some major changes and didn't change the model name/number. Please give exact details as to seagate model number. I suspect you where looking at a Hawk drive (ST15230N), which do match the above description. > I think that Seagate may be moving in the right direction with these > puppies. (Mind you, they're as picky as all get-out about SCSI cabling > and termination 8( ) All fast scsi-ii drives are. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD