[aclug-L] Re: Warning about cheap Maxtor hds

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John here has an excellent point.

If your BIOS doesn't support large disks, you'll have many problems.

Of course, I won't put it past Maxtor to make a bad drive... that's one of
the things they're best at anyway =)


On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:46:01AM -0500, John Alexander wrote:
> Uh, are you sure your bios supports that big a drive? If not, it will exhibit 
> the
> symptoms you are reporting.
> 
> ja
> 
> james l wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > A 2 weeks or so back, My dad got a ~45 gig (41.9 really....) drive at 
> > compusa
> > for ~200. I hadn't opened it until yesterday. When I put it in to my
> > computer, it did not work. I thought ok, maybe I need to specify it as user.
> > When I typed it in, it gave me a size of ~10 gig. I have a 10 gig (from the
> > same company) for my computer, and thought maybe I had picked the wrong one,
> > I which I hadn't. When I looked at the other drive I found the CHS to be
> > exactly the same. I haven't taken it back yet (we bought their replacement
> > thing, and if they don't, there may be some fireworks before the 4th), but I
> > thought I would warn everyone. The drive was sealed in shrinkwrap from
> > Maxtor. Oh yeah, it did not work at all.
> >
> > I hope that this is just one incident, but haveing it entirely packaged as 
> > it
> > should have been causes me some concern that someone else might have been
> > ripped off. I don't think that now even the fact that they are cheap and big
> > (and slow) will make me buy Maxtor ever again.
> >
> > James L
> >
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