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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: Toshiba MK538FB? Royce Howland?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1993Jan19.190218.7363@pencom.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:32:29 GMT
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- ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester) writes:
-
- >I'm looking for more disk space and may have narrowed my choice down
- >to the Toshiba MK538FB. This is a 1.2g 12ms 3-1/2" 1/2 height drive.
- >Is anyone using this drive? what do you think of it? Do you boot
- >from it? Did you have to do anything special to get it working? How
- >did you build the disk?
-
- I have heard of several people using this drive, some even
- installing it internally to their station, so I am pretty sure it
- works OK. However, I would be interested to hear from those people
- now on whether or not they are happy with their purchase. I'm
- considering buying one of these, also, and if anyone wants to talk
- me out of it, please do. Either post or e-mail and I'll summarize,
- as inexpensive gig drives are often a popular subject.
-
- Thanks.
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