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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
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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.
>
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>  Michael L. VanLoon                                 
michaelv@HeadCandy.com
>       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
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>                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
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