From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 10:15:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1490A37B405 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4467043EEA for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:15:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9647541537; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:15:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=server2.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:15:24 -0500 Received: by server2.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id 90FED41576; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:15:24 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Jud" To: "Jack L. Stone" , "David Gethings" , "Laszlo Vagner" Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:15:24 -0500 X-Epoch: 1040408124 X-Sasl-enc: 8GHqd1vbyBY63JRsAYHpNg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB References: <3E02FBEE.70207@vagner.com> <1040375699.28596.79.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk> <3E02FBEE.70207@vagner.com> <3.0.5.32.20021220082956.013b44a0@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021220082956.013b44a0@mail.sage-one.net> Message-Id: <20021220181524.90FED41576@server2.fastmail.fm> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:29:56 -0600, "Jack L. Stone" 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