Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:20:11 -0600 From: "Chad Albert" <chadalbert@mchsi.com> To: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm>, "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, "David Gethings" <davidg@pipex.net>, "Laszlo Vagner" <freebsd@vagner.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB Message-ID: <005801c2a854$71938e10$e8b41595@hboc.com> References: <3E02FBEE.70207@vagner.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212141109270.11935-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> <1040375699.28596.79.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk> <3E02FBEE.70207@vagner.com> <3.0.5.32.20021220082956.013b44a0@mail.sage-one.net> <20021220181524.90FED41576@server2.fastmail.fm>
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> > > > Beware of Quantum Fireballs -- bought two of the 40GBers and the jumpers > > would NOT work properly -- according to the BIOS on several different > > machines tried. Had to do the opposite of the diagrams for mastering, but > > slaves would NOT work period on either one. One died after a couple of > > months -- brand new! Moved the "survivor" to a less-important machine to > > do > > test routine duties -- peeling potatoes and shelling peas! > > > > Never again.... > > I'm not a sysadmin at work but I know several, who told me they had to > change out all the Quantum Fireballs here at our 1000-seat campus. They > were dropping like flies and it wasted too much of everyone's time > replacing them one-by-one as they failed. FYI, I have had problems with fireballs and bigfoots. Check this page out, we are not alone... http://www.driveservice.com/bestwrst.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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