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Re: WTB: Hard drive

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From: Nick
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 00:00
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On 3 Nov 1999 04:02:04 GMT, wittry@cc.gatech.edu (Eric S. Wittry)
wrote:

>Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific.  I wasted 2+ GB, not 
>8 GB.  The motherboard in my main machine has a limit of roughly 8 GB.  
>(The BIOS doesn't quite support 8 GB correctly for some reasong, 
>but will support in excess of 7 GB).  Thus, this is the limit I 
>configured to.  Sorry, I should have mentioned that.  I got what I 
>considered a deal on the 10 GB drive ($130 for a Maxtor OEM 10 GB, 
>7200 RPM drive), so I went for that, knowing I probabally wouldn't be 
>able to use all of it (until I upgrade my motherboard).  Hence, I'm 
>wasting somewhat more than 2 GB, not 8 GB.  
>
>--
>					
>			-Eric S. Wittry (wittry@cc.gatech.edu)


So you need a hard drive?

-Nick
cs1302labta
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Date: 1999/11/03
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