From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 10 10:57: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4251F37B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09810; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9AHugw26684; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:56:42 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Warner Losh Cc: Leonard Chung , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <20001010105641.A26557@tao.thought.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001009190324.028c6d58@yikes.com> <200010100509.XAA18135@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200010100509.XAA18135@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:09:07PM -0600 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:09:07PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. > This seems true of most things you can buy. If IBM and Seagate are among the high-end, what brands would you avoid? gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message