• Re: Hardware Follies: Defeated by the Disk

    From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Tue May 20 13:36:34 2025
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

    Unfortunately, my supply of PATA drives is limited; I've only three
    left in the closet, and one of those has bad sectors on it. The other
    two were a 250GB and a 300GB drives. But surely I could make it work?

    And here I thought, didn't I have a larger drive than that already by
    mid-90s? Then I realized, oh no, my second "large" HD was 500 MB not 500
    GB, probably bought in 1993. Oh well. I remember I did try to avoid all
    issues with large drives, no overlays or weird stuff like that and
    somehow managed. Just don't remember how. Maybe I just stuck with
    reasonably small drives that didn't cross any lines.

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