From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 22:15:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08974 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08969 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03959; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA06110; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707300514.WAA06110@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: The Classiest Man Alive cc: Dave Alderman , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K6 In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 29 Jul 97 17:58:20 -0400. Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:14:52 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > : This is fascinating to me. Are Jaz drives acceptable for running BSD? >Assuming that I understand your question, jaz drives run FreeBSD perfectly >well. They can be used as secondary storage or boot drives. Just understand that they won't be quite as fast as "normal" SCSI drives if the verify mode is on. Take that into account when doing your benchmarks. (And they are not as reliable with verify mode off-- that's not a recommended fix.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------