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From: dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Big Disk under FreeBSD????
Date: 20 Sep 1995 13:36:03 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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Distribution: best
Message-ID: <43ptvj$1pi@blob.best.net>
References: <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt> <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> <43kugh$n0@bbj.freenix.fr>
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:In article <43kugh$n0@bbj.freenix.fr>, Remy Card <card@bbj.freenix.fr> wrote:
:>In article <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr>,
:>Ollivier Robert <roberto@hsc.fr.net> wrote:
:>>As a matter of fact, Linux does support more than 2 GB/per FS. It has for a
:>>long time now.
:>
:> Right. The Linux Ext2fs has been running on 9GB disks for more
:>than one year now. I have just received a report of someone using Ext2fs
:>on a 36GB RAID array :-)
:>
:>>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.
:>
:> Well, during the past six months two 9GB disks (one from Micropolis,
:>and one from Seagate) died on my FTP site... I assume that this was caused
:>by some problems in the first revisions of the disk, because the new disks
:>that replace the defective ones work fine.
:>
:>>--
:>>Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org
:>>-=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-
:>
:> Remy
We had a 9GB micropolis drive for a while, but it started giving us
soft errors, and then had a hard error right in the middle of the
history file.
It is now collecting dust.
-Matt
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Matthew Dillon VP Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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