Re: Hardware Follies: Defeated by the Disk

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Unfortunately, my supply of PATA drives is limited; I've only three
left in the closet, and one of those has bad sectors on it. The other
two were a 250GB and a 300GB drives. But surely I could make it work?

And here I thought, didn't I have a larger drive than that already by
mid-90s? Then I realized, oh no, my second "large" HD was 500 MB not 500
GB, probably bought in 1993. Oh well. I remember I did try to avoid all
issues with large drives, no overlays or weird stuff like that and
somehow managed. Just don't remember how. Maybe I just stuck with
reasonably small drives that didn't cross any lines.