That's Orly. :)
Sorry, Hi Orly!
My hard disk is a Quantum and I guess its better than the two drives you
mentioned because it is still working. I guess that hard disk manufactures
doesn't consider manufacturing quality hard disks anymore.
Or maybe there's a mishandling in some point in the delivery.
BTW, are SCSI drives more durable and has a longer lifespan than IDE's?
I'll consider the first option, installing RH6.2 in my DOS partition,
although i guess i'll have to free up some space, but then again i'll just
wait until i can buy a new hard disk, so that i can run Linux in its own
native partition. I'll also try downloading ActiveState. Is it a freeware? I
hate using those time limited versions.
Thanks!
Gerald
>> Thanks for enlightening me. Its my third hard disk to crash. Sadly, the
>> Linux in this hard disk was only 2-3 weeks old! Say, i only need to do
some
>One of my friends got a 10GB Seagate U8 drive (those crappy Medalists..
>hate 'em.. but they're cheap). Died the next day. One of my other friends
>got a 10GB Maxtor DiamondMax Nova 7200rpm drive (supposedly higher-end, it
>was 7200rpm). Died after two days. These two events both happened in the
>last two months.
>I've had two Quantum Bigfoot drives. Had a good experience with them. But
>some of the people on this list absolutely hate Quantum. I now have a 28GB
>Seagate Barracuda ATA. Looks pretty sturdy (compared to the U8 drives..)
>and my experience with SCSI Barracudas is pretty good. NB the Barracuda
>ATA was formerly known as the Medalist Pro.. came in both SCSI (Hawk) and
>IDE versions.
>> perl programming, so can i do perl programming using 1.44 floppies so
>> that i won't need to reformat/repartition my other hard disk?
>> Unfortunately, that means i won't be able to test the cgi program
>> because i am not in a networked environment, and no gui based web
>> browser to test it. It is really bad luck!
>What I suggest is you get a Linux installation (such as Redhat 6.2) which
>can run off an image file in a DOS partition. You can't do Perl on
>floppies. Sure tomsbrt and similar floppy-only distros are amazing.. but
>Perl is huge. Perl alone would take up an entire floppy.
>Or you can get ActiveState Perl for Windoze. It's only about 10MB
>download.
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