Bad Hard Drive

[Henry Spencer]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > It used to be common for hard drives to have jumper options telling them
> > to lie about their capacity, precisely to handle such situations.  Meant
> > that you couldn't use the extra, but at least the drive would work...
> 
> As far as I understand it using the jumper makes the drives stuck at
> 32G, while using a softclip program makes it possible to use the full
> size under smart OSs (like linux).

Possibly so, but do you care?  If your only concern is to buy a workable
replacement for the old (say) 4GB drive in that firewall box, does it
*matter* whether the usable capacity of that $75 drive is 32GB or 80GB? 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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