Re: [Sheflug] My network hassles/BIOS issues.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> No, by 'BIOS writer' I meant the spoons who actually write the software,
> not the thing that flashes it in ;)

 Ah. Yeah, I looked at LinuxBIOS at one point, but they are a little bit
too bleeding edge (i.e. this will trash your system beyond belief, if it
even boots) for me :-)
 
> >  Any one know of a good source of moderate sized
> 
> > secondhand/cheap/refurb'ed IDE HDD (6-10Gb)? I want to use this machine
> > as a fileserver/backup box, but 540Mb ain't that useful these days :-)
> >  Only other option is to splash out 125 quid on a 40Gb IBM drive and
> > swap out the 10Gb in my main machine.
> 
> Oooooooooooo, dodgy. I'd get a new one, if I were you. You can get new
> drives for about 70 quid or even less, you don't have to go over the
> ton.

MMmm. Point taken. I'm not sure where you get your prices from - I'd be
interested to find out. If I was to get a new drive, it would be
big+fast, and I'd take one of the smaller drives out of an existing
system.
 The 15Gb+ cheapest drives on dabs.com are 20Gb drives at 98 quid or
so...

 Baz.
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