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In-Reply-To: <199702131229.WAA19434@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Feb 13, 97 10:59:27 pm"
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:35:06 +0100 (MET)
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In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
> 
> FWIW, when the disk is working, it looks like this :
> 
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 85120 A8  ->
> wd0: 788MB (10003392 sectors), 9924 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> 
> (I forgot to turn on the 32bit/multi-block stuff on this one...)
> 
> They actually seem to perform alright (though I'm not doing anything
> terribly heavy on it, and they're _very_ quiet.

Sounds good, especially the quiet bit, I plan to use one for a 
workstation, and I'm very picky about noise...
You have an iozone result or some such, just for the fun of it ??

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