From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 16:14:51 2003 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 1543137B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:14:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E465343FA3 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h180FuT5074917; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:15:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E444BCA.2070605@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:14:02 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson Cc: Grant Peel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Drive References: <000d01c2cf03$e33f1950$6a01a8c0@grant> <20030207235404.GA5356@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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