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On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:10:36AM +0200, Andreas Jonsson wrote:

> May I ask how you purchased your IBM drives? I've had several friends (and
> heard stories from other people on the internet) have their IBM drives, which
> they bought via mail order, fail (my friends bought drives from
> datorbutiken.com). Maybe IBM drives are just more fragile than other
> harddrives? Drives which they purchased in a "real" store worked just fine...
> Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe it's not.

That's a likely explanation -- I purchased all my drives via mailorder from
buy.com and mwave.com.

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.