From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 3 17: 1:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from celery.dragondata.com (celery.dragondata.com [205.253.12.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C425715234 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@celery.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by celery.dragondata.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA34572; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:00:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from toasty) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <200001040100.TAA34572@celery.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: wanna buy an EIDE harddisk ... 5400 or 7200 for home use (noise) To: mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU (Mitch Collinsworth) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:00:53 -0600 (CST) Cc: jon@welearn.com.au, andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm), hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200001032308.SAA12767@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> from "Mitch Collinsworth" at Jan 03, 2000 06:08:25 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >when, if, such ddevices become available for the scsi bus will > >the end user require doing anything special, ummm, that is take > >sepcial measures like your proposing for the 'ide' type bus > >version of these large drive devices ? i've use scsi where ever > >possible, because of the inherent reliability and performance > >(for my meager requirements) issues, such as they are. > > when/if? SCSI is ahead of IDE. I have sitting here on the floor by > my desk a box containing two 50 GB SCSI drives purchased a couple weeks > ago. I have yet to install them but as far as I'm aware from reading > the freebsd lists there are no such problems as that above with large > SCSI disks and freebsd. I'm using an array of several Ultra2 Wide SCSI 47G and 120G drives, that work just dandy. :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message