From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 10:23:37 2005 Return-Path: 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 9FF9E16A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:23:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B6943D2D for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:23:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j2PANmb47849 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:23:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:23:36 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 In-Reply-To: <1074993623.20050324195325@wanadoo.fr> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:23:37 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > Chris writes: > >> Your legacy hardware finally gave up the ghost... > > Uh, no. The production server is about 90 days old, and state of the > art. The drives are brand new. That is right around the time that brand new drives fail, if they are going to, that is. Modern drives with the exception of high end SCSI ones, are as a friend of mine put it once: "slapped together a million miles a second on the assembly line" Ted