From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 13 15:13:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09891 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net (punt-2c.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA09865 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longacre.demon.co.uk ([158.152.156.24]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa0523188; 13 Jul 97 19:08 BST From: Michael Searle Message-ID: To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sd0 timed out while idle References: <199707112133.OAA04679@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:05:44 BST X-Mailer: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk owner-hackers-digest@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Jamie Bowden wrote: >> The 2.5G Bigfoot drives were fine and ran very cool. The Quantum SCSI >> drives are the ones that have overheating problems. > Bigfoot drives are 3400rpm, which makes them cool, and really slow. > Until, I saw the Bigfoot specs, I had no idea that anybody made anything > slower than 5400rpm these days! There's loads of 4500rpm 3.5" IDE drives still around. (maybe they're not made any more, but they are still sold.) And nearly all 2.5" IDE drives are 4000-4500rpm. -- Michael Searle - csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk