Al salaam a'alaykum Maurice

27 Aug 03 17:43, Maurice Kinal wrote to David Drummond:

 >>> 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 :-)

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

Nope - it's installed straight off the CD - I haven't even re-compiled the
kernel yet......

Regards,
David

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