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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 1 Gigabyte drives
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.194215.9966@virtech.uucp>
Date: 21 Feb 91 19:42:15 GMT
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jka@radar0.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
>     I'm running interactive unix 2.2 and am looking into 1 Gb. SCSI
>     drives. I have the Adaptec 1542A controller and am thinking about

With SCSI you will get better performance from 2 670MB drives than from
a single 1GB drive.

>     a Fujitsu drive because of the 5 yr warrenty. Anyone out there have
>     any experience good or bad, with 1 Gb. drives under ISC 2.2? Any help

They work (we set up a system for a client with a seagate 1GB).  NO problems
with the setup or since delivery.  The only thing to remember is that
file system mount/unmount time will be very long when ISC reads the free
list unless you fill up the drive.

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