I think this may be marginal in price. I've seen 15 gig Maxtor drives for
$50 after rebate. And I bought 40 gig 7200rpm IBM drives for $130 last
month. Which LM 8 supported ONCE I flashed my BIOS to allow the computer to
boot past the IDE detection phase.
What didn't work successfully, in my case, was putting the hard drive on my
HT366 controller. I got occasional DMA timeouts that required a reboot.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benjamin Sher
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 9:48 PM
To: Expert
Subject: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
Dear friends:
The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of
8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3
years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state
of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about
reliability and performance. And, most of all, I would like to know
whether LM 8.0 can handle a 20.4 Gig hard drive in the first place.
