Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:13:00 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency...... Message-ID: <4898C25C.9060509@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080805204528.GA51027@thought.org> References: <20080805181926.GA24000@thought.org> <20080805183320.GE60428@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080805185612.GC47096@thought.org> <20080805192406.GA60931@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080805204528.GA51027@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:56:12AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>>
>>> the datasheets for the 40G drives are lost lost.
>>>
>> Oh, come now! If you still know what make and model the drives are, the
>> datasheets are available online.
>>
>>
>
> sure they're online,but i don't remember whether they were Seagate or
> something else. and putting then in was a nightmare. [[ for some
> reason, these hp kayaks have baffles and partitions and more things you
> gotta unscrew.]] it took a REAL (hardware) EE close to an hour.
>
>
you can often (always for me so far) find your drive model info from
smartctl -a /dev/{devnode}
(from the port sysutils/smartmontools)
example output
-------------------------------------------------------
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 family
Device Model: Maxtor 6E040L0
Serial Number: E1PAM22E
Firmware Version: NAR61EA0
User Capacity: 41,110,142,976 bytes
---------------------snip------------------------------
Vince
> ------this brings me to another question butnotnow!
>
>
>
>> --
>> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
>> ========================================================================
>> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
>>
>
>
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