Subject: Re: IDE drives and Linux Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 19:22:15 -0600 From: l00017@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (Networking Research)
>Subject: IDE drives and Linux
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>I am planning to purchase a new hard drive to replace my cramped 80 meg.
>I am considering a Quantum 240 meg and would like to know if anyone is
>using this drive with Linux or has had trouble using it. Thanks.
Well, I think you must mean the Quantum 210, since they don't
(to my knowledge, and I know the quantum line pretty well) make a 240
meg drive. I've got a Quantum (Plus Impulse) 210AT, and while I haven't
tested Linux on it, Mach likes it quite a bit. The geometry of the drive is
873 cyls, 13 heads, 36 secs/track. Maybe this will help people who know
more about what Linux likes and doesn't like answer your question. I
haven't, to be honest, brought Linux up yet myself, but I intend to use a
Quantum 105AT for it.
-Mark Holden
l00017@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu