Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 13:11:54 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960408131011.18475A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960407173551.1819B-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
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Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :) On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > It's time to bring out the checkbook and do some upgrading. I looked in > the computer shopper, and there's some good deals on Fujitsu drives, so I > though I might pick up a 2 G model. I know they carry a 5 year warranty, > I was wondering if anyone knows anthing too negative about them? They have worked for me. > > Like, do they tend to run hot or have a bad infant failure rate, or > anything? > > It's also time to upgrade one of my two 486's to a Pentium. I've heard > reams about some motherboards that use external cache poorly, or don't > really take advantage of ED0 ram. Does anyone have a positive > recommendation on a board that doesn't have any problems (so far) ? > > I figure I'm going to have to buy some new ram, so I'm not worried about > compatibility with the 70 NS stuff from the 486 boards. I'll just take > the memory from the 486 that's going out of service, and load the other > one up. The Pentiums with the exernal frequency of 66MHz (P5100, 133 & 166) require 60ns RAM. > > Thanks for the comments, I always wait until I'm really ready to write > the check before I ask the questions. > > ========================================================================== > Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 > > Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, > Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, > Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, > One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game > In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. > One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, > One Account to make them all and in the network bind them. > > > Sander
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