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to: David Drummond
from: Maurice Kinal
date: 2003-08-27 17:43:22
subject: HDs

Hey David!

> Al salaam a'alaykum Maurice
> 27 Aug 03 06:42, Maurice Kinal wrote to Roy J. Tellason:
>> The best deal I am aware of is a 40G Maxtor for $125 Canadian.
> Goodness! I recently purchased a 120Gb Segate 7200RPM for $182 Australian.
>Of course the BIOS in the bloody machine didn't recognise anything bigger than
> 64G. Slackware 8 was quite happy to partition/format it all :-)
> Regards,
> David

Sounds excellent!  The Maxtor is also 7200rpm but may have a slightly
better seek time, but don't quote me on that.  As for partitioning and
formatting Slackware is excellent.  Did you upgrade e2fsprogs on that
puppy?

- Maurice

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