4/27    My 2 month old Seagate 200G EIDE drive failed yesterday. It's a
        Seagate, not a WD or Maxtor. I can't believe it.
        \_ Statistically, sooner or later you will get unlucky.  Also, every
           now and then vendors have bad runs, like the IBM Deathstar drives
           from a couple years ago.  If it's 2 months old it should still be
           under warranty.  Just get it replaced. -dans
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10/27   If I'm getting a new EIDE hard disk for my 4 year old computer, do I
        have to worry about hardware incompatibilities? My old computer
        has an EIDE drive in it, but I'm not sure what the deal is with
        terms like Ultra ATA/133 and so on. Thanks.
        \_ No.  It'll work as expected.  You may not get the super peak
           performace the drive is capable of but you won't notice since
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6/1     I want to put together a reasonably large (~250GB), reliable, and
        cheap disk array for important files and documents on a FreeBSD box
        which currently only has a couple of IDE drives in it.  I'm thinking of
        running vinum on a bunch of external drives--any recommendations on
        dependable, not-too-expensive disk racks/cases?  Speed's no issue,
        so what about scsi-2 vs. USB vs. Firewire?  Any opinions welcome.  -John
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4/17    Now that those rat bastards at VALinux are getting out of the
        desktop market who is a reasonable alternative as a supplier?
        IBM? HP? Dell? Someone else? --dim
        \_ what was good about VALinux? there's penguincomputing.
           I don't know why you'd care, just install Linux on anything.
                                        \_ Just say no. If you must
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3/27    Ultra 5 running out of disk.  Need disk.  Does generic UDMA/33 EIDE
        disk work or do I have to buy Sun disk, like I had to buy Sun CD-ROM
        drive?  Thanks.
        \_ You didn't have to buy a Sun CD-ROM, you just had to do more
           research.
           \_ I plugged in my generic IDE CD-ROM and it didn't work.
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11/1    Anyone got a spare ATAPI CDROM (any speed) drive, and a floppy?
        --PeterM
        \_ what's the diff between IDE and ATAPI?
           \_ For practical purposes: zero.  The anal will soon followup
              with a difference response.
              with a different response.
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9/25    I have an old P133. I just bought a 10GB hard drive in it but can't get
        my bios to recognize it as anything greater than an 8GB drive. How
        can I get around this?
        \_ What the hell crackhead stupidass ED user deleted my reply?
           Fine. this whole stupid thread deserves to die. Botton line:
           Install linux, or any real OS. problem solved, you now have access
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1/23    What's a good brand of IDE hard disk to buy?
        \_ It's all the same although some people will feed you their religion
           about certain brands.  Get the size you need of the type you need
           (ide/eide/ata-33/ata-66,etc) and balance performance vs. cost.
           If there was truly a bad brand, they'd be gone years ago.
            \_ so you mean I should get that JTS or Jaton or Samsung HD? :P
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7/24    hello, does anyone knwo if there is a reasonable comparison of
        perforance of x86 unixes? there is some circa 1996 stuff at
        http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/~laik/benchmarks but obviously
        something more uptodate would be nice. this is for a high-end
        machine, in case that makes a difference. --psb
        \-jeeze louise: high-end is relative to it's class. by this i mean
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6/2     I'm looking for information on cassette tape to CD replicators.  I have
        some old deteriorating audio tapes that I would like to burn it into a
        audio CD.  Anyone with information on such a machine?  Thanks a lot.
        \_ buy CD-R drive ($400).  Plug your stereo into the audio-in of your
           computer.  Record tape using free software.  Make CD.  -tom
              \_ a cheap CD-R could be had for $250 or so nowadays, EIDE
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5/6     Hi, I'm building my own Linux server from scratch. Can someone tell
        me what the approximate performance gain I would get by using two
        SCSI drives (one for kernel/binary/swap, the other one for user only)
        versus two EIDE-4 drives? There is a pretty sizable price gap. THANKS.
        \_ post to ucb.os.linux for access to clueful opinions
        \_ Serving what? With only two drives SCSI will most likely not gain
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3/17    Hello, I am looking for suggestions about two things:
        1. what is a good CD-R to get. Price [as long as we are still in
        the commercial electronics and not $10000 range] is not important,
        I would like it to write fast [4x is best consumer speed?], not
        break [so willing to pay for name brand using good components],
        easy to use [good software ... unix and windows?], and i suppose
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