Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:14:02 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Grant Peel <grant@thenetnow.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Drive Message-ID: <3E444BCA.2070605@potentialtech.com> References: <000d01c2cf03$e33f1950$6a01a8c0@grant> <20030207235404.GA5356@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 07), Grant Peel said: > >>I am suppoed to have 10000 RPM SCSIs on this box, but when I do a >>disklable, it ells me 3600 RPM. Should I be worried? > > > The values in the disklabel are not used anymore. They were, way back > when disk latency was horrible and the OS needed to know things like > that to optimize writes, but that code has been removed or sommented > out for a long time. It would be nice if this information could be removed from the disklabel. I guess if that's not feasible, a notation in the documentation would be nice (I was confused about this about a year ago). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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