Monster IDE Drives

[Bob]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Ozolins <ted1 at telus.net>
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: Monster IDE Drives


>Kurt Wall wrote:
>
>>Evenin', list,
>>
>>Has anyone run into problems using the new monster IDE drives? I
>>just won one on eBay, a WD 120GB UltraATA/100 beast with an 8MB
>>cache (I remember hard disks that weren't much bigger than 8MB).
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>K
>>  
>>
>A friend of mine is running several of those WD 120's. One on a 
>slackware box the other on SuSe ( I think) He changes distros as often 
>as politicians change their minds. No problems  that I'm aware of. My 
>first HD was a5 meg unit and I thought that was phenominal<G> That was 
>on a converted televideo running cpm and I figured I'd never need all 
>that storage.
>
>Cheers
>
>-- 
>Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
>Westbank, B. C
>
Golly, my 1st 286 had a 5e40 K drive.
Bob