On May 24, 23:39, Tony Duell wrote:
> The other 'nasty' is machines that will only take a limited number of
> hard disk types (geometries). Sometimes only 2 or 3 drives are supported,
> and you can bet that they'll either be almost impossible to find a drive
> with all parameters in excess of the ones needed, or it will actually
> verify that the drive has the specified geometry (e.g. checking that a '6
> head' drive doesn't work when heads >5 are selected).
Tell me about it :-(
> Getting the right
> spare drive for one of those can really drive you insane.
How do you think I got to be like this? :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 21:13:04 BST