From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 16 12:18:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19662 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19566 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA24120; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:16:00 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: John Polstra cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM DDRS-39130 drive In-Reply-To: <199810160432.VAA09147@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 , > spork 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