[sclug] Last nights banter, a hardware scrounge, and much much more...

[Simon Heywood]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:58:41AM +0000, Ian Michell wrote:
> Chris Aitken wrote:
> >Secondly, does anyone have a small ( < 10 Gb) IDE HDD they can spare (or
> >sell) to me. I have a 3 Gb one in my main desktop (with debian), and the
> >drive is FUBAR'd so I need to replace it ASAP, but have no need for a huge
> >HDD.
> I could possibly help with the HD problem you have :) I have a 3GB HD in 
> an old celeron that serves my network, I am going to be replacing it 
> with a 120GB disk in the near future, you may have it with pleasure

So why is it that I have immense difficulty in getting hold of small yet
reliable hard disks? ;-)

I acquired a couple from a computer fair at the University of Warwick a
few years back (I think one was 540MB) but one died soon after and the
other started corrupting data. Oh, well....

S.