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Subject: Re: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:20:11 -0600
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> >
> > Beware of Quantum Fireballs -- bought two of the 40GBers and the jumpers
> > would NOT work properly -- according to the BIOS on several different
> > machines tried. Had to do the opposite of the diagrams for mastering,
but
> > slaves would NOT work period on either one. One died after a couple of
> > months -- brand new! Moved the "survivor" to a less-important machine to
> > do
> > test routine duties -- peeling potatoes and shelling peas!
> >
> > Never again....
>
> I'm not a sysadmin at work but I know several, who told me they had to
> change out all the Quantum Fireballs here at our 1000-seat campus. They
> were dropping like flies and it wasted too much of everyone's time
> replacing them one-by-one as they failed.
FYI, I have had problems with fireballs and bigfoots. Check this page out,
we are not alone...
http://www.driveservice.com/bestwrst.htm
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