I work in a company that has about 25-35 computers with quantum 3.0 gigs and
I have owned both a 4.3 and 3.0 gig drives without problems myself. I can
not say that about other companys...
James Boeck
>From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Quantum hard drives
>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:35:37 -0500
>
>On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > That's funny... My 12GB Bigfoot TX drive has failed on me *twice* this
>year,
> > taking a lot of data with it (although I was more prepared the second
>time
> > round). Fortunately, I am under warranty until June 2001.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:18, Jeff wrote:
> > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Hello list
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb)
> > > > > > > > > Quantum ide drives with Mandrake 7.1 and above?
> > >
> > > Iv'e been using a Quantum bigfoot 12.7 gig hd since Slackware 3.5 till
> > > Mandrake 7.2 (now). Never had any problems. At one point it booted
>Win98,
> > > BeOS, Slack 7, and Mandrake 7.0. Besides being a tight fit it all
>worked
> > > well for me. Now it's just running 7.2 beta (a few package revisions
>short
> > > of official) and all is well. Hope this helps you.
>
>When you say failed do you mean the drive just quit working? I havent had
>anything like that happen to me (same drive) and my drive is around 2 years
>old. I dont think it would make a difference but this drive came factory
>with
>an hp pc.
>
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