JAY EMRIE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>JE> Jim, considering the low prices of HDs now days, it hardly seems
RJT>JE> worthwhile to expend too much time and energy on only a 5.1 Gb HD -
RJT>JE> dubious at best. I'd just look around for a good price on a new HD.

RJT>OTOH,  of the _four_ machines currently running here I have only 
RJT>_two_ drives in the whole mess,  out of 7 or 8 in those boxes,  
RJT>that exceed that in size. And of the fair pile of HDs I have on 
RJT>hand here,  only _two_ of them exceed that in size.  Got one 10G 
RJT>drive I'm fixing to put in to the main linux box, after having 
RJT>tested it,  and one slightly larger that I need to try with a
RJT>SCSI card and see how it works.

JE> But I think you missed the salient point. The drive in question
JE> doesn't seem to be properly operable. Why expend too much time and
JE> energy on something like that when bigger better drives are so
JE> economical?

"Economical" in my case means I already have it,  or can get it
for nothing,  or close to it,  finances being what they are at this point. 
:-)

JE> If the drive/s you have and are using are good it makes good sense
JE> to keep/use them.

Yep.  I hate to see stuff go to waste.

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