[rescue] cant get support once they're out-of-business

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Jul 12 11:14:48 CDT 2002


On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:11:02PM -0400, Tim H. wrote:

> At this point I haven't settled on my choice for IDE drives, because I
> did like the IBMs, and the prices were good.  I actually have a couple
> drives that I think are in the problem series here, but I haven't had
> any issues.  I just make sure there isn't anything not backed up on
> them.

The majority of what I have is seagate and maxtor.  So far so good.
Maxtors will overheat though (especially if you stick a pair of
UltraATA drives in a 486 that was designed with the assumption that
HDs don't produce noticable heat).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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