From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 15 21:33:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06657 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06614 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:33:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA09147; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199810160432.VAA09147@austin.polstra.com> To: spork@super-g.com Subject: Re: IBM DDRS-39130 drive In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:32:49 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article , spork 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