Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!wtr@moss.ATT.COM From: wtr@moss.ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: disk drive hell (aka/etc/hdinit) Keywords: need some installation advice Message-ID: <25409@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: 26 Apr 88 12:56:46 GMT References: <689@tness7.UUCP> <187@turnkey.TCC.COM> <1106@tness7.UUCP> Sender: nuucp@clyde.ATT.COM Reply-To: wtr@moss.UUCP (Bill Rankin) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 57 In article <187@turnkey.TCC.COM> jack@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes: >How can someone go to all the expense of buying a ^^^^^^^ >386 box and then put an ST225 drive in it!!?! >Also you aren't trying to run Xenix-86 on it too are you??? My >recommendation would be that now that you have spent $X000 on a >state of the art box the least you could do is pay a few hundred >for an AT-class drive (~40Meg) and run an OS that >will utilize >your hardware!!! Okay, Jack, it's time for a small lesson..... Once upon a time there was a poor hacker, who lived with his two wicked yuppie step-siblings. The yuppies drove their BMW's to all the parties, but our hacker had to stay at home and work, because he was saving his pennies. One evening, our hacker's fairy godmother came to him and said: "Yo! Dude! Here be-eth thoust 386 clone for sale, cheap!" So our hero succummed to temptation and purchased the box, although it exausted his funds and he could not go out the the party with his evil yuppie step-siblings. He knew that the rest of his system was degrading the 386 performance, but he also knew that he could work hard and upgrade when he had the dough. (Perhaps by selling a couple of used BMW's, cheap ;-) MORAL: Not all of us have large bank accounts, nor company funds to buy whatever we please! A "few hundred" is still alot of money, especially after laying out the cash for a new box. If **I** had the money, why, I would stop f*&^in around with this clone mess, **I'd** go get a new Sun, or a BIG Vax, I mean, whats a monthly electricity bill when you got a few hundred here, a few hundred there! What I think would have been appropriate here would have been suggestions on what constitute good buys for a 386 box. Fast disks, cache controllers, location, availability, PRICE. What gives you the biggest bang for your buck? That way, we poor folks here may look at our cash flow (or lack thereof ;-) and make these decisions. read the keywords: "need some installation ADVICE" ===================================================================== Bill Rankin Bell Labs, Whippany NJ (201) 386-4154 (cornet 232) email address: ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd allegra ]!moss!wtr ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua watmath ]!clyde!wtr =====================================================================