Re: The Magical Ghost Partition

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>>I discovered there was a second hard drive on it (a weird 5.25" thing
>>I've never seen?) and it was all partioned up.  So after I installed
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>Quantum Bigfoot?  Quantum made those in a large format to enhance
>drive cooling but they had some problem - I don't forget exactly what.

They were SLOW! My Pionex P-233 had a 4.3 Gb Bigfoot in it. Measly 512K cache,
and very slow. I think they rotated at 5 rpm. :-)

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>Strange.  I guess I would pull all the hardware, then install parts I
>wanted to be in there.  It sounds a bit like a situation I came across
>once where a machine (maybe a pb) had a harddrive made from two drives
>that were physically joined together in a strange hardware striped
>configuration.  I guess that was around 96 or 97.  So maybe removing
>the extra drive and install w95 to the remaining one will work.
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That might be the best idea. Start from scratch, then add a drive back later.
    ~~O^O~~
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