> Okay, you make a lot of arguments here for buying a very crappy drive > which you even admit is crappy and unreliable.
No, I don't. > If this is your way of > saying, 'You can't afford to do this,' then I hear you loud and clear. Nope. > But I'm not going to respond to every one of your points number by > number. You should try. You write a hell of a lot, but you don't read what I'm saying. I did NOT advocate getting a drive from your "surplus store". I said, modest-size SCSI drives, certainly up to the 4GB range, are computer scrap these days. Companies are binning them all the time. Go look for local large offices who will be binning machines. Go ask in charity shops; you might call these "welfare" or "goodwill" or something. Put an advert in a local newspaper. Join your local Linux user group and *ask.* It shouldn't cost you anything. Any drive that's been thrown in a bin isn't worth having - at any price. But if that's all you can find, get 'em for free - haggle, trade something for it, whatever - then TEST the sucker. Run a read-write test over it for a few days. Power cycle it repeatedly. If it passes that, it's probably fine. As I said in my message, if you got that far, *I DO THIS ALL THE TIME.* *MOST OF MY COMPUTERS WERE BUILT THIS WAY.* And they run just fine, thanks. The flakey ones are the newest... Quality control is deteriorating these days. I run a LAN of about 15 machines at home, running a dozen different OSs from BeOS to Solaris - of which maybe 3 or 4 cost ANY money at all, and they were either homemade or 2nd-hand. -- Liam Proven � http://welcome.to/liamsweb -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
