Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:16:00 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM DDRS-39130 drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9810161514510.23004-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <199810160432.VAA09147@austin.polstra.com>
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Thanks for all the input, folks... Searching dejanews I've yet to find any negative comments on this or other IBM drives, so I think I'll go ahead and take the plunge... Hopefully they get along with the CMD controller. Thanks, Charles --- Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, John Polstra wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.4.00.9810151954350.4885-100000@super-g.inch.com>, > spork <spork@super-g.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just a quick check on everyone's opinion of the IBM DDRS-39130 4G U/W > > drive. > > I believe that model number is for the 9.1 GB drive. The 4.5 GB drive > is DDRS-34560W. > > I have three of the 34560W drives in a machine here, and they're > dynamite. Check it out: > > vashon$ dd if=/dev/rda2 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1000 > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > 65536000 bytes transferred in 4.927831 secs (13299157 bytes/sec) > > The drives are reasonably quiet and run cool. > > When I received the drives, one of them had zillions of bad blocks. I > had to exchange it under warranty. However, I'm convinced that it had > gotten damaged during shipment. (The vendor said he tested the system > before shipping it, and it was fine at that point.) Since getting the > replacement drive, I haven't seen any anomalies with these drives at > all. > > John > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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