From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 00:07:12 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 0FBFF106564A for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7488FC16 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:07:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7607OAY054564; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:07:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:07:08 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20080806000707.GA56589@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> <20080805210852.GA52496@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080805210852.GA52496@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org 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: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:07:12 -0000 On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:08:52PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:45:28PM -0700, 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. > > The command "dmesg|grep '^da'" should tell you the make and model of the > disks. If you have SCSI, use '^ad' instead of '^da'. Well, well. i found my high-end SCSI adaptor. couldn't remember where it got stashed, :-) Anyway, yup, found the drive. i's a WD400BB. I just hope this puppy lasts another several months. Oh, but then i need help to swap it out. This brings me to my next question which is:: It it better to buy a proprietary make like Dell or HP or stick to something more generic? Let's assume that i could handle the hardware end myself. what would you suggest? gary PS; I'Ll post this separately, but just wondering.... > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org