From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 21:10:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA06697 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 21:10:57 -0800 Received: from gate.sinica.edu.tw (gate.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.14.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA06690 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 21:10:55 -0800 Received: by gate.sinica.edu.tw (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA17700; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 13:09:00 --800 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 13:03:11 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao Subject: Re: A deal on hard Quantum hard drives To: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503090144.RAA29410@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 727 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Mar 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > I do not know who else out there has a >2G drive that they can just > play with. I may be in a position to help out, depending on how our hardware budget proposals go. We are asking for the equivalent of about US$10000 from the higher-ups to augment our hard drive storage (we need to spool a lot of 3D NMR data to disk for later processing). I would be able to "borrow" a suitably large drive for a day just for testing out 64-bit offsets. The only problem is that it may still take several weeks for the whole thing to happen. :( -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org