Greets Shaun!

 Well, I took your advice and bought a Quantum hard-drive. It's a
 Fireball 1.7Gb.... yeah, I should have paid the extra $50.00 and
 got a 2.5Gb. Still this one seems huge to me.

 I had few problems installing it (after getting advice from a
 Telstra mate about static) but had trouble resetting the jumpers
 on my old drive. The diagram for OLD being master and NEW being
 slave showed three little thingos on the Seagate but there are
 only two. I omitted the right-hand one but it doesn't seem to
 matter. The sods don't give you the four screws to mount it.  I
 ended up racing around town at 8.20PM on late-shopping night
 trying to get them.  

 The hard part came with the partitioning. HDToolBox doesn't want
 you to have in excess of two partitions.  Buggered if I could get
 it to work.  In the end I settled for two partitions on both drives.
 So now I have:
	HD0: = Workbench   62Mb  (Seagate)
	HD1: = Data        62Mb  (Seagate) - for downloads, temp etc.
	HD3: = Work       815Mb  (Quantum) - for progs
	HD4: = Work2      813Mb  (Quantum) - for imdb etc.
 
 The Quantum is very fast (to my knowledge) but is quite noisy.  I
 don't know if this is normal.  I DID tighten all the screws.  I'm
 told it is the eqivalent of a jet flying at the speed of sound six
 feet off the ground ... the mind boggles, or should that be biggles.

 The Quantum has one little plug-in that is not on the Seagate. I
 left it vacant because I couldn't find a mate for it.

 I was happy to format the Seagate because it had been repaired and
 liked to throw up requesters about bad vectors.  Now it is nice
 and clean.  In addition, after a rush of blood to the head, I
 cleaned up my Work:  All proggy dirs (ie those that rquire a path)
 have been reduced to three or four letters.  So now I have ANIM,
 BASE, BIZ, COMM, GFX, MISC, MONI, MUS, PROG, SALV, TIME, UTIL,
 VIR and WORD.  Clear as mud, eh?  It took a few hours altering
 assigns etc.

 All in all I'm very happy with the drive.  Thankyou for steering
 me that way.  Yours' was the only reply I got.  I don't think many
 Amigans are reading AUST_AMIGA these days.  The conf deteriorated
 for several months and eventually sank to posts about the relative
 merits of Adelaide and Brisbane beer!!  It was a dead loss.  Any
 genuine pleas for help were treated with sarcasm.  These COMMS
 nutters are a breed apart ... what they don't understand is that
 COMMS is not the only skill going.  Thus, the poor lamer that they
 are busy shytcanning may be a Rhodes Scholar for all they know.  
 Of course, they conveniently forget that THEY were once lamers.

 Thanks again.

 Bye now ... Rodney ... rgrieves{at}cougar.multiline.com.au

 








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