Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:32:49 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: spork@super-g.com Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM DDRS-39130 drive Message-ID: <199810160432.VAA09147@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9810151954350.4885-100000@super-g.inch.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9810151954350.4885-100000@super-g.inch.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In article <Pine.BSF.4.00.9810151954350.4885-100000@super-g.inch.com>,
spork <spork@super-g.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a quick check on everyone's opinion of the IBM DDRS-39130 4G U/W
> drive.
I believe that model number is for the 9.1 GB drive. The 4.5 GB drive
is DDRS-34560W.
I have three of the 34560W drives in a machine here, and they're
dynamite. Check it out:
vashon$ dd if=/dev/rda2 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
65536000 bytes transferred in 4.927831 secs (13299157 bytes/sec)
The drives are reasonably quiet and run cool.
When I received the drives, one of them had zillions of bad blocks. I
had to exchange it under warranty. However, I'm convinced that it had
gotten damaged during shipment. (The vendor said he tested the system
before shipping it, and it was fine at that point.) Since getting the
replacement drive, I haven't seen any anomalies with these drives at
all.
John
--
John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199810160432.VAA09147>