I have never had any problems with Fijitsu drives. As a matter of fact I
have two 6.4's in my linux box.
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From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 7:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware
I think
"Good Luck" is a relative term. Western Digital has a pretty neat Service
Dept too. Gateway will take things back and send you a new one when they
aren't obligated to.
I would rather have something that didn't break in the first place. In the
midst of this, I have had ONE DOA from WD, which
Civileme wrote:
"Good Luck" is a relative term. Western Digital has a pretty neat Service
Dept too. Gateway will take things back and send you a new one when they
aren't obligated to.
I would rather have something that didn't break in the first place. In the
midst of this, I have had
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote:
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me, one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other with bearings
eating the spindle.
Quantum Bigfoot Drives--three KO from powering down unpredictably (the
drive, not the
Take a look at:
http://www.linuxhardware.net/
Sam
Aaron deRozario wrote:
This information would be very handy. IF someone had the time and effort
and web space some kind of database that keeps track of parts and parts
combinations that are successful, or unsuccessful might also be good.
"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote:
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me, one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other with bearings
eating the spindle.
Quantum Bigfoot Drives--three KO from powering down
I think the archives of one of the overclocking newsgroups might have something
on Fujitsu drives.
Ihave experience with ONE Fujitsu IDE drive, an old 2G with no
cache (that's right, none). It did creditable service, but
every time there was a power failure and I was not there to shut down
regarding
Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware:
[snip]
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me,
one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other with bearings
eating the spindle.
Quantum Bigfoot Drives--three KO from powering down unpredictably
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
OK, I see many many posts trying to get things working. Perhaps it is
BIG snip, but worth saving to a file.
I am sure there are lots of additions to be made. Anyone? Also, if
I have treated anything unfairly, please let me know. I am trying to
put
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
3. HSP devices, including the modem-like signal conditioners. Some of
these are on board like the PCTel on the PCChips M748MR. To be safe,
make sure that if you intend to use a modem that the manufacturer says
it will work with DOS, or buy an EXTERNAL modem.
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Brian J. Babiuk wrote:
snip
Packard Bell computers of any
vintage. snip I have never experienced anything
more likely to drop its MBR or a few clusters off the disk than these
babies.
--I agree! Packard Bell, the Star Office of Computers g
ROTFLMAO!!!
David P.
John Aldrich wrote:
As for Seagate...just FYI, my primary hard drive is a Seagate IDE
(Actually a relabled Conner G) but it's only an 850 meg. The other
hard drive in my system is a full-height 5.25" Seagate 9.5 Gig (8.5
after formatting) SCSI drive. I assume your admonition against
Seagate
What about posting this to the MandrakeUser.org site? I haven't
looked at the requirements, but this site seems to be growing into a
newbie info haven.
Ty
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On 10/4/99, 8:20:52 PM, Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware:
[snip]
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me,
one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other with bearings
eating
This information would be very handy. IF someone had the time and effort
and web space some kind of database that keeps track of parts and parts
combinations that are successful, or unsuccessful might also be good. I
know when I built my machine I was only interested in getting parts that
would
Ty Mixon wrote:
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On 10/4/99, 8:20:52 PM, Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware:
[snip]
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me,
one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other
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