From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 29 14:19:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EC937B401; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:19:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1913143E4A; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:19:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gATMJWh0017171; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:19:32 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gATMJWa1017170; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:19:32 -0800 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:19:32 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: Alexandr Kovalenko , Soeren Schmidt , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WD Caviar XL: tagged queuing supported? Message-ID: <20021129141932.A16270@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20021129192648.GB1672@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20021129144622.U11122-100000@workhorse.imach.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021129144622.U11122-100000@workhorse.imach.com>; from forrestc@imach.com on Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:47:06PM -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE95+fzXY6L6fI4GtQRAn7UAJ0XdNlRbP1eC8xppO1FJuHj9a4xQACg2ms4 wGeF1qSB9j3gVf8KJc5Atdk= =5A9X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message