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From: lim@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Carmay Lim)
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Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components
Date: 3 Feb 1995 10:02:39 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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Larry McVoy (lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com) wrote:
:
: I can vouch for the Seagate Elite 1, Elite 2, and Barracudas (all used by
: Sun and went through Suns qualification process). All of these were
: big drives which goes along with the comments that others have made that
: the seagate problems may be restricted to the smaller drives. Dont go
: below a gig and you are fine, and at 50cents/megabyte, why would you?
Because I have a 340-meg FreeBSD partition with the base installation,
all the GNU *util packages (source and binary), the kernel source tree
and the XFree86 server and binaries:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 337231 154144 166225 48% /
/dev/sd0g 153432 116044 37388 76% /dos
500 megs would be *more* than enough, especially with about 41 gigs
of disk available on local NFS servers. :) But in the interest of
acquiring Big Toys, I'll probably end up going for a Quantum Empire
1-gig drive anyway. ;-)