On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:25:34 -0400, Thompson, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >><snippage> >>I've been doing this almost since my first PC. Since I've always just >>copied hard drives to bigger hard drives, I still have some stuff from >>my >>40M hard drive from the first PC I built. >> >><snippage> >> >>And how well does that MFM drive work today? Or is it RLL? >> > >I don't understand the question. I don't have that drive, I've always >just "upgraded" my HDs by copying to bigger / newer technology (for >me, that is Sata 3GB/sec). > ><SNIPPAGE> > >I have a few of the old drives, but I have no way to read them to go >back and get something that wasn't copied. > Since I've been doing it along the way as technology has changed, I've always been able to support 2 kinds for upgrading. So I had ATA/EIDE connected at the same time as SATA for example and did the copies that way. I don't want to continue this O.T. subject much longer, but I do have to admit, if you were to start from scratch, these days you can buy a name brand pc with memory, video, dvd writer, HDs and the OS cheaper than you can by starting from scratch. But it didn't used to be that way. Regardless, if you build you own, it gives you more flexibility in upgrading just the part(s) you want to. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
