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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ns2.mainstreet.net!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!News.LiveNet.Net!Clifford.LiveNet.Net!jsloan From: Jim Sloan <jsloan@LiveNet.Net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD has problems with ALL SEAGATE Hard Disks (SCSI Included) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 23:54:30 -0400 Organization: LiveNet, Inc. Lines: 44 Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960710234933.6764B-100000@Clifford.LiveNet.Net> References: <31d9f533.2001764@news.infolink.net> <4rsv15$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4s0681$kh@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: clifford.livenet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4s0681$kh@anorak.coverform.lan> On 10 Jul 1996, Brian Somers wrote: > Date: 10 JUL 1996 13:04:17 +0100 > From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> > Newgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > Subject: Re: FreeBSD has problems with ALL SEAGATE Hard Disks (SCSI Included) > > J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: > : koiler@qi3.com (John Koyle) wrote: > > : > Sorry, I have a 4 gig Seagate UW SCSI on an Adaptec 2940UW and ASUS MB. > : > It runs a full news feed (short expire dates) and the server hasn't > : > crashed, glitched, or been rebooted for over a month. Sorry. > > : Sorry, i do all my FreeBSD development and testing on two Seagate > : drives. (An oldish 500 MB one, and a newer 2 GB Hawk.) Have been > : using a BusLogic Bt742A with the old EISA board, and now an NCR > : 53c810. > > I've never had problems either - I have Seagate, Quantum, DEC, IBM and > Fujitsu, and the only problems have been with the Quantum. > > > -- > Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > I have 3 old Seagate 43400's w/AHA-1542CF running on my news server, only problem I had was when one of the drives fried the bearings (not 2.1R's fault). Running now for 3 months, even AFTER I hosed the disk geometry and had to fiddle with it with fdisk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Sloan jsloan@livenet.net Vice President/Engineer LiveNet, Inc. 413 Davis St. Suite 106 Full Service Internet Provider Virginia Beach VA 23462 Dialup and dedicated connections Ph: 804-499-9328x103 Virtual Web, Email, and FTP hosting http://www.livenet.net info@livenet.net webmaster@livenet.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------