From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 9:50:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 250D937B42C for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:50:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CDA6CA876; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:49:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:49:16 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: "Brett G. Lemoine" Cc: Rich Morin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 15k rpm Drives Message-ID: <20010425114916.B74143@cec.wustl.edu> References: <200104251623.JAA80115@blah.incyte.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104251623.JAA80115@blah.incyte.com>; from bl@incyte.com on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:23:16AM -0700 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:23:16AM -0700, Brett G. Lemoine wrote: > > At 11:02 AM -0700 4/24/01, Stephen H. Kapit wrote: > > >Are there any issues with using the Cheetah 15k rpm drives with freebsd > > >in an external raid array? > > > > If the array is of reasonable size, you may need to file an EIR, due to > > the possibility of gyroscopic effects slowing the Earth's rotation. Of > > course, much of this problem can be alleviated by proper attention to > > the drives' orientation... > > We should see how many people we can get to orient their drives to > maximize the slowing... I could use a few more hours in the day. I could use 48 hours in a day... maybe then I can screw around enough and still get my work done. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message