Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:43:27 -0600 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "Chad Albert" <chadalbert@mchsi.com>, "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm>, "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: <3.0.5.32.20021220124327.013b44a0@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <005801c2a854$71938e10$e8b41595@hboc.com> 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> <20021220181524.90FED41576@server2.fastmail.fm>
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At 12:20 PM 12.20.2002 -0600, Chad Albert wrote: >> > >> > 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. > >FYI, I have had problems with fireballs and bigfoots. Check this page out, >we are not alone... >http://www.driveservice.com/bestwrst.htm > Well, I be darn! I have since standardized with Seagates and glad to see them rated at the top of the good list here too. Used to use only Seagates at one time and then drifted. Thanks for the info.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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