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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Big Disk under FreeBSD???? Date: 19 Sep 1995 03:49:37 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 30 Message-ID: <43lekh$qgq@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt> <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) writes: > >The problem is more on the 9 GB drive itself. I have some bad stories about >the new Micropolis disks. In 6 months, at least 5 Micropolis died at some >friends' sites. Be sure that it will be cooled enough. Heat is a serious >problem with all the 7200 rpm drives. We buy a decent amount of Microplis Raidion LT equipment at work, and we've seen the failures also. (as a matter of fact _two_ drives this past weekend, on one box) A customer rep at Micropolis let slip the information that they had a bad batch of drives, with 'spindle problems.' This is consistent with what we have seen. The failed drives have typically become quite noisy prior to failing, which sounds like a bearing/spindle problem. Supposedly the problem has been solved, and they have all new drives. (this is at the advance exchange center) So.. Yes, Micropolis has had some problems (haven't all the manufacturers?), but I still recommend them, and if I buy a disk _personally_, it will be a Micropolis. I have always liked Quantum drives as well, but have no experience with the new large capacity models. (though their 2GB/4GB Ultra-SCSI models are supposedly at about 16MB _sustained_ throughput!) My 4.3GB Micropolis (and a BusLogic 956C) does about 8MB raw from the device. This is under NetBSD, and I don't believe it is using wide mode. -Andrew -- ============================ Real 32bit multi-tasking UN*X System Andrew Gillham | TCP/IP,NFS,PPP,4.4BSD-lite,multi-user gillham@andrews.edu | i386,sparc,alpha,mac68k,amiga,others LAN/WAN/NW/UN*X specialist | ---> http://www.NetBSD.org <---