On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> That's funny... My 12GB Bigfoot TX drive has failed on me *twice* this year,
> taking a lot of data with it (although I was more prepared the second time
> round). Fortunately, I am under warranty until June 2001.
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:18, Jeff wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hello list
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb)
> > > > > > > > Quantum ide drives with Mandrake 7.1 and above?
> >
> > Iv'e been using a Quantum bigfoot 12.7 gig hd since Slackware 3.5 till
> > Mandrake 7.2 (now). Never had any problems. At one point it booted Win98,
> > BeOS, Slack 7, and Mandrake 7.0. Besides being a tight fit it all worked
> > well for me. Now it's just running 7.2 beta (a few package revisions short
> > of official) and all is well. Hope this helps you.
When you say failed do you mean the drive just quit working? I havent had
anything like that happen to me (same drive) and my drive is around 2 years
old. I dont think it would make a difference but this drive came factory with
an hp pc.
