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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1647 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:51:52 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!sdcc12!icogsci3!cg18fbi From: cg18fbi@icogsci3.ucsd.edu (Richard Dante) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: SCSI disk purchasing guidlines Keywords: [386BSD] Gods of SCSI, please answer my prayers! Message-ID: <45287@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: 19 Feb 93 04:42:21 GMT References: <MCKIM.93Feb18081235@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov> <C2oGEv.44r@moxie.hou.tx.us> Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: icogsci3.ucsd.edu Could someone please post some basic guidelines for purchasing a SCSI harddrive for a 386BSD system, ie. what to look for, what to stay away from? Looking at ads, the 3.5 inch >1Gig drives look good: small size, high capacity, fast (~11 ms). Yet should I be worried that these drives are translated only because they are so small? If this is the case, should I (or any 386BSD person looking for a big SCSI disk) only consider the full height 5.25inch drives because they most likely (as far as I would speculate) be definately untranslated. This seems like an important issue for the drive buyers of our community for I know the woes of translated disk problems (my Quantum LP-240 translated AND zones. An excellent drive in DOS but in 386BSD it makes the buffer cache look real bad) Rick Dante rdante@sdcc13.ucsd.edu cg18fbi@icogsci1.ucsd.edu