From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Nov 20 17:38:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA29302 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:38:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA29281 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:38:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-14.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.14]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA19071; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:38:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA20658; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:56:54 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199711210056.SAA20658@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chris Dillon cc: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Advice on new SCSI hardware In-reply-to: Message from Chris Dillon of "Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:27:53 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:56:54 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On 20-Nov-97 Ollivier Robert wrote: > >I recently saw a press release about Micropolis... It seems they're > >almost > >dead (people fired, offices closing and so on). > > > >The IBM drives (DCHS / DCAS) are good too. > > I've heard good things about those drives, but I can't find any place that > has them for a decent price. (about $300 for about 4GB is a good price, i > guess :) Last time I looked http://www.onsale.com was selling the DCHS-39100. 9G Fast-Wide (not Ultra). Paid $604 for mine but at least one auction closed this week at a bottom price of $569. They were selling 50 to 80 at a time. No trouble bidding on one or two. While Onsale claims the drive has a 5 year warranty, they say its handled thru IBM. Forgot if there was an "OEM" mark on mine. Not sure how warranty will be handled but I printed their web page with the claim, and my bid listed, and should have good grounds for false advertising if I'm denied warranty service. After you get yours, read the scsi(8) manpage an set the WCE (Write Cache Enable) bit. Improves performance very noticably. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.