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- From: taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: No, no.. Not an IDE drive!
- Message-ID: <9208130436.aa12112@generic.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 08:24:46 GMT
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- behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes...
- >
- >But really, lots of my friends have IDE drives, and nothing ever went
- >wrong with them.
-
- But something *could* go wrong. Our user group's monthly Hardware
- SIG meeting usually sees at least two or three bad drives. Most of
- the time, the problem can be fixed simply by backing up the data and
- doing a low-level format. Relatively easy. Having to send your drive
- back to the manufacturer is a royal pain.
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