From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 21:13:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D371065670 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:13:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B717D8FC1E for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:13:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from Vincesmacbook.local ([10.0.0.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m75LDHco019249 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:13:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4898C25C.9060509@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:13:00 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20080805181926.GA24000@thought.org> <20080805183320.GE60428@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080805185612.GC47096@thought.org> <20080805192406.GA60931@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080805204528.GA51027@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20080805204528.GA51027@thought.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency...... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:13:03 -0000 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. >> > >