From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 12: 7:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7CF37B66C for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10083; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e99J7en16925; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:07:39 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Steve Roome Cc: Craig Hawco , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <20001009120739.D15937@tao.thought.org> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001006160901.009eb5d0@pop.syd.eastlink.ca> <5.0.0.25.0.20001006160901.009eb5d0@pop.syd.eastlink.ca> <20001006152247.B82507@pawn.primelocation.net> <5.0.0.25.0.20001006163108.009e9070@pop.syd.eastlink.ca> <20001009161016.C35132@moose.bri.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20001009161016.C35132@moose.bri.hp.com>; from steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:10:16PM +0100 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:10:16PM +0100, Steve Roome wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:35:17PM -0300, Craig Hawco wrote: > > Ah, very true, but I can't afford to replace it. > > It's a 1.7gig Fujitsu M1623TAU.. 3 years old. > > I have a 4-5year old 1gig Seagate that's still in perfect condition.. guess > > that tells you how good Fujitsu drives are. > > Well, it tells you how good that particular Fujitsu is. > > > I had a whole batch of seagate disks die on me at one company. > That doesn't tell me how good Seagate drives are. > > I have 600Gb of filesystem entirely on seagate drives here, some fail > some run happily. No disks are perfect, but it's rash to imply that > Fujitsu are a bad disk manufacturor because one disk died! > > Personally fujitsu and IBM are at the top of my list above seagate on > who to order from. > > Steve I'll stick in my dime's worth, and ask a question about IDE drives in general. Re Fujitsu, in 1991 I bought a 1.08G SCSI drive mfg by them that ran flawlessly for 8+ years before it died. Consider this simply another data-point. The question: How reliable are the new IDE drives? Is there any published research comparing SCSI and IDE reliability? gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message