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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: Adding IDE drive to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1994Jan18.152516.24831@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, University of Wales, Cardiff References: <2hed9c$qpq@scunix2.harvard.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 15:25:14 +0000 Lines: 18 In article <2hed9c$qpq@scunix2.harvard.edu> aogbadeg@husc8.harvard.edu (Abolade Gbadegesin) writes: >I will be buying a second IDE drive to add to my current FreeBSD 1.0 setup. >Right now, I have a Maxtor LXT340A on my system, and am planning to get >another Maxtor, the MX7245A IDE drive. This way, the blame for all blow-ups >may be laid at one door. However, I would appreciate any recommendations from >anyone who also has a two-IDE-drive setup, or anyone who has a Maxtor drive. >I will be buying mail-order from Insight, and advice from former Insight >customers would be welcome. If you send me e-mail, I will post a summary of >sorts. I have 2 Maxtor IDE drives. A 7213 and a 7120. No problems at all with them, they never had any problems even with some of the more buggy wd drivers so I'm very happy with them. -- Paul Richards, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@UK.AC.CARDIFF