That's it. I'm buying a large Quantum drive but will my older BIOS support it?
Roman
James Boeck wrote:
> 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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Roman
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