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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Big Disk under FreeBSD???? Date: 18 Sep 1995 09:16:31 +0200 Organization: Usenet Canal Historique Lines: 23 Message-ID: <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt>, Fernando Cozinheiro <Fernando.Cozinheiro@ci.ua.pt> wrote: > support some of our services under FreeBSD. The best one (in terms of > price and characteristics) is one from MICROPOLIS with 9 GB of > capacity... but I suspect that LINUX don't support it yet. As a matter of fact, Linux does support more than 2 GB/per FS. It has for a long time now. > 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. [ Cc: to Fernando ] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-