From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 3 23:29:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA24501 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:29:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA24479 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:29:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.5/8.7.3) id IAA18085; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:31:13 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199702040731.IAA18085@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: 2G SCSI disks? In-Reply-To: <199702040543.QAA10839@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Feb 4, 97 04:13:55 pm" To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:31:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Michael Smith who wrote: > > Argh, I'm screwed 8( > > A couple of systems we quoted have just been accepted. Both were > specified with 2G SCSI disks. > > Only the 2G disk we were planning to use (the IBM DORS32160U) is no > longer available. In fact, none of the 2G disks that we normally use > are (no Seagate Hawk units either). Yeah, I know, we they have the same problem at work :(, I don't think they found anything usefull yet, so they use 4G disks instead... > Does anyone have any alternative suggestions for reliable 2G 5400rpm > SCSI disks? > > Failing that, has anyone done anything with the new Maxtor > "DiamondMax" disks? Or have any suggestions for IDE disks that are > likely to come close to the performance of an Ultra-SCSI disk? Hmm, I've looked at the 5.1G Maxtor disk, and I'm going to get one as soon as my limited budget allows me to, for use as a test drive for DMA EIDE transfers. From what I've heard it should provide decent performance in that configuration, and it priced about half of a equivalent SCSI drive, that should make it a pretty god buy.. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..