From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu May 13 11:11:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E754115166 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 11:11:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral.com (mjacob@feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA27985; Thu, 13 May 1999 11:11:10 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:11:09 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Chuck Robey Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM scsi drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've had some reasonable good experiences in some contexts with the IBM drives- but they have a wierd property of not working if your host adapter negotiates sync speeds before negotiating wide. Make sure these drives work for you before you pay! On Thu, 13 May 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > Anyone got experience with an IBM scsi drive, DDRS34560W-LVD? Their web > page says the LVD stands for low voltage differential, and I've got bad > memories of dealing with Quantum differentials ... the IBM data says > it's fully compatible, on my existing bus, with single-ended scsi (at a > lower transfer rate, only 40MB), but I'm wondering. > > At $175 for 4.5G, it seems like it would be a good deal if I knew it to > work .... does anyone have any experience with it? > > BTW, this is for a hobby system, not a professional system, so anyone > suggesting I spend triple the price for extra reliability is going to be > politely ignored. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) > (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message