On Fri 24-Jan-1997  4:58 , Rodney Grieves wrote:
RG>  Greets Shaun!

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

For now anyway ;-)

RG>  The hard part came with the partitioning. HDToolBox doesn't want
RG>  you to have in excess of two partitions.  Buggered if I could get
RG>  it to work.  In the end I settled for two partitions on both drives.

Wow... didn't know about that one...

RG>  The Quantum is very fast (to my knowledge) but is quite noisy.  I

Not sure about the noise, but Quantums have always been much faster than
the others (in all my experience anyway).

RG>  All in all I'm very happy with the drive.  Thankyou for steering

Good to hear. That's the main point.

RG>  me that way.  Yours' was the only reply I got.  I don't think many
RG>  Amigans are reading AUST_AMIGA these days.  The conf deteriorated

Thank the internet and the slow demise of the Amiga for that :-(

RG>  for several months and eventually sank to posts about the relative
RG>  merits of Adelaide and Brisbane beer!!  It was a dead loss.  Any

Hahaha :-) Mark, has this anything to do with you??? :-)

RG>  genuine pleas for help were treated with sarcasm.  These COMMS

I haven't truely participated in this echo for a long while, but in
newsgroup/echoes, there are a lot of pleas for help and most have help
offered.

Anyway, glad to be of assistance.

Ciao for now,

Shaun.

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