Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

->  MMC> Just for info in case someone else is tempted to go to a BIG HD.  
->  MMC> :-(( 

-> I'm tempted.    Have these reached any sort of
"affordable" pricing?  I
-> haven't looked,  lately...
-> Last several times I looked,  $100 would get you 40,  then 60, 
-> then 80G in real short order,  and I wouldn't be at all surprised to 
-> see 120G or higher in that price range by now,  as it's been several 
-> months since I looked at what was out there.

 TW>  $99 was always my Price break for some reason.

Not me.  A little higher,  though not too much higher.  

And,  I won't play the stupid rebate game that so many of these mfr's seem
to want to play these days...

 TW> I bought into a 4.5, 8.4, 10, 13, 20, 40, and 60 gig drives at the 
 TW> $99 line. Just yesterday though I popped for the WD 80 gig that 
 TW> CompUSA had for $69 After a $30 mail in Rebate.

Is that the same outfit that used to be Compu-Add?  If so,  they used to
have a retail store around here at one point in time.  I only ever bought
one thing there,  a plastic keyboard drawer that locked up on me (slides)
in the closed position.

 TW>  Ran into a BIOS limit on a machine though. On the other even my 
 TW> Siig ATA 100 Secondary IDE controller, that can handle up to 128
 TW> Gig drives, Misreports it as a 10 gig Drive. But it Fdisked(After
 TW> doing the Microsoft Fdisk Upgrade) and Formatted to full capacity.

Not planning to deal with any m$ stuff in the future,  I don't expect I'll
have that problem.    I just figure I'll give it enough info to be
able to boot the damn thing,  and linux will figure out how to deal with it
from there,  not using the BIOS at all once it gets going.  If you can get
it past the point of being able to boot,  that is.  I haven't had a problem
so far,  but then I haven't anything here currently that's bigger than a
6.4G,  either.  We'll see how it goes.

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