On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug
>Russell writes:
> : See, I knew there was a reason I hung on to all these 1M 30 pin SIMMs. :)
> : Old 386/40s sure make nice little router/modem/whatever boxes. :)
>
> Until their hard disks go south :-(. The biggest problems I have with
> them is that they also tend to dislike newer ATA disks.
I think that's why IBM has jumpers on some of their disks that limit
them to 2GB. I can't see why else you would want to take a perfectly
good 8GB+ disk and use it as a 2GB drive. Of course, some of them may
not even tolerate that much space.
-- Brooks
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"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not
have, nor do they deserve, either one"
--Thomas Jefferson
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