Now hard drives too. Re: Modern floppy disk question...

[Al Kossow]

> Why doesn't anyone mention Micropolus.

Because their drives were crap, and they are dead, dead, dead (good riddance)

"Never buy a drive from a vendor starting with 'M'"

Seagate and Quantum have honorary M's in their names, too.

I just made the mistake of buying three 300 gig Seagates. One was DOA, the
others are very picky about operating temperature ( I have to run them in
open air with the logic board facing up). They also will only run on firewire
bridge boards in with a G4 powermac (they hang the system on any of the
internal PATA busses).

Hitachi 400's worked perfectly (I have 4 running in this machine right now).

No doubt one of them will crap out now that I've posted this.

The only recent IBM/Hitachi drives I know of that were dogs were 120's made
in Hungary (the ones from Thailand are fine).