20 Apr
2003
20 Apr
'03
2:11 p.m.
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:
I guess you missed the irony.
I think it may have been mutual, Jeff.
- don
Yes. It is rudimentary and almost totally useless.
If you've handled
as many hundreds of drives as I have, you'd know that color, shape,
size, door-type, whatever, has no bearing.
I mean, you can guess from experience and be right more often than not,
but if a customer called me by phone and described a drive, I wouldn't
venture to say 40 or 80 track, high or regular density etc without
testing the drive myself. Barring a test, a model number would be the
only other way I'd swear to a drive's capacity.
Regards,
Jeff
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