From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 1 02:55:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA25643 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 02:55:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ren.dtir.qld.gov.au (firewall-user@ns.dtir.qld.gov.au [203.108.138.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA25635 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 02:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.dtir.qld.gov.au; id TAA22072; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:54:30 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) by ren.dtir.qld.gov.au via smap (3.2) id xma022068; Wed, 1 Jul 98 19:54:06 +1000 Received: from atlas.dtir.qld.gov.au (atlas.dtir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.9]) by ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA11592; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:54:06 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au (nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au [167.123.10.10]) by atlas.dtir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11497; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:54:05 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au (localhost.dtir.qld.gov.au [127.0.0.1]) by nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA12564; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:54:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from syssgm@nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au) Message-Id: <199807010954.TAA12564@nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au> To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: Strong opinions, anyone? References: <199807010117.PAA20095@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: <199807010117.PAA20095@pegasus.com> from Richard Foulk at "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:17:18 -1000" Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 19:54:04 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 30th June 1998, Richard Foulk wrote: >The drive hides the retries by default. It is possible to query the >drive for the soft error count. That's were you see the incredible >redundancy of this design. Hey, do you know how to do this query with FreeBSD? We've got loads of Exabyte drives around here and some are now on FreeBSD boxes. Our Solaris boxes let us know, real polite like, when the Exabytes are dirty. The FreeBSD boxes are writing blind. If you don't clean your Exabytes when they want to be, your backups (and drive life, I believe) suffer. Oh, and the only disk drive I recommend to anybody at the moment is the IBM DCAS-34330UW, 4.3GB, quiet, cool running, fast enough for everything I want, never heard of a failure. A bargain. I use a few at home. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message