From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 13:47:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03766 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:47:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03717 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:47:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25613; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 13:46:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Hans Huebner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12GB EIDE Hard Drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 May 1998, Hans Huebner wrote: > The Quantum is cheap. It is cheap. And it is cheap. Propably the > most economic way to set up a big (and silent, if that matters) audio > archive. Also, the raw transfer rates of the drive are not that bad > after all. We're able to read at about 5-7 MB/sec, which is quite > okay for an IDE drive. Granted, the seek rates are not that good, and > also the performance is not evenly distributed over the whole disk > capacity. But hey, it is sooo cheap. I was going to ask this: > This is not true. We run our BigFoot on a 2.2.6-RELEASE system with a > slightly updated wd driver. It works without problems (so far). Two > other people are using my patched driver and did not report problems > as well. Would it make sense to put that into the -stable branch? I've had two or three Bigfoots in Compaqs blow up in my face. I don't trust them. I suppose that the patch is about ready for -stable. It may already be there for all I know. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message