From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 22: 9:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2329C37B66D for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9A598Y11251; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 23:09:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id XAA18135; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 23:09:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010100509.XAA18135@harmony.village.org> To: Leonard Chung Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Cc: kline@tao.thought.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Oct 2000 19:06:31 PDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20001009190324.028c6d58@yikes.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001009190324.028c6d58@yikes.com> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 23:09:07 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <4.3.2.7.2.20001009190324.028c6d58@yikes.com> Leonard Chung writes: : Almost all modern IDE and SCSI drives use the same drive mechanism between : them, so their reliability is the same. I've had way more problems with IDE drives going south than SCSI. Most of the IDE drives still are 5400rpm, while most scsi drives run at 7200 or 10000. The low end of scsi is higher than the low end of IDE. The low end of IDE redefines junk. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message