On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:49:26 -0800
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:

> The size of the drives changed but these drives seemed to have bad sectors
> that were just unrecoverable, (ie even when it did recover size it still
> tended to lose data on a read) or they were in a couple of cases just
> unusable due to age and hw problems other than sectors.  One drive I
> remember was unable to read without going into "thrash mode" (the only way
> I can describe what it did.)  Several of the drives where 4 gigs that had
> been formated and used as 2 gigs. (bios updgrade time)
> 
> James
> 

yikes! that sounds brutal!
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