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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:19:32 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
Cc:        Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>, Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WD Caviar XL: tagged queuing supported?
Message-ID:  <20021129141932.A16270@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021129144622.U11122-100000@workhorse.imach.com>; from forrestc@imach.com on Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:47:06PM -0700
References:  <20021129192648.GB1672@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20021129144622.U11122-100000@workhorse.imach.com>

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On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:47:06PM -0700, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
>=20
> > I need this info to decide if I should buy WDs or IBMs...
>=20
> Last thing I heard, the last thing you want to do is buy the IBM drives as
> they have serious reliability issues.
>=20
> Perhaps someone can confirm if this is still true...

The reliability problems were with the 75GXP line.  I haven't seen any
reports of systemic reliability problems with the other lines.

-- Brooks

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