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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ghgcorp.com!usenet From: jlnieten@ghgcorp.com (Joe Nieten) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Big Disk under FreeBSD???? Date: 24 Sep 1995 15:48:55 GMT Organization: GHG Corporation Lines: 54 Message-ID: <443ul7$jdn@pan.ghgcorp.com> References: <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt> <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> <MICHAELV.95Sep18222145@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialupline38.ghgcorp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 We were unable to make the micropolis 9Gig work. However, I have been able to make the 4Gig micropolis work by using partition smaller than 2Gig. In article <MICHAELV.95Sep18222145@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com says... > >In article <43l23m$c18@overload.lbl.gov> jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) writes: > > In article <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr>, > Ollivier Robert <roberto@hsc.fr.net> wrote: > > >In article <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt>, > >Fernando Cozinheiro <Fernando.Cozinheiro@ci.ua.pt> wrote: > > >> I would appreciate very if someone could share his experience or > >> knowledge with me, about the following subjects: > >> - Does anyone installed already any Micropolis disk with this capacity? > > >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. > > Interesting. We have a few hundred GB Micropolis and Seagate drives for > at least a year. None of Micropolis disk had problem. A few Seagate disks > are dead right way. > >I, too, would buy Micropolis before I'd buy Seagate. But my >information is all second-hand: I've heard lots (enough to be >significant enough that I'd remember them) of horror stories about >dying Seagate drives, and I've heard lots of really positive things >about Micropolis. > >-- >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4, > DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532 > NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others... >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -