Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:15:24 -0500 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, "David Gethings" <davidg@pipex.net>, "Laszlo Vagner" <freebsd@vagner.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB Message-ID: <20021220181524.90FED41576@server2.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021220082956.013b44a0@mail.sage-one.net> References: <3E02FBEE.70207@vagner.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212141109270.11935-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> <1040375699.28596.79.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk> <3E02FBEE.70207@vagner.com> <3.0.5.32.20021220082956.013b44a0@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:29:56 -0600, "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> said: > At 11:18 AM 12.20.2002 +0000, David Gethings wrote: > >On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 11:15, Laszlo Vagner wrote: > >> western digital is notorious for that, what brand are you using? > >> > >> just curious. > >Maxtor something-or-other. > > > >Dg > > > > Beware of Quantum Fireballs -- bought two of the 40GBers and the jumpers > would NOT work properly -- according to the BIOS on several different > machines tried. Had to do the opposite of the diagrams for mastering, but > slaves would NOT work period on either one. One died after a couple of > months -- brand new! Moved the "survivor" to a less-important machine to > do > test routine duties -- peeling potatoes and shelling peas! > > Never again.... I'm not a sysadmin at work but I know several, who told me they had to change out all the Quantum Fireballs here at our 1000-seat campus. They were dropping like flies and it wasted too much of everyone's time replacing them one-by-one as they failed. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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