Re: Why a shortage of IDE drives?

[Dain Neater <dneater@inebraska.com>]

I think Alltech was only selling new drives, and the supply of those has
dried up.   Luckily I got my purchase in before these problems came up.


Dain

dneater@inebraska.com

> From: eeastmanNOSPAM@apple2.com
> Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> Reply-To: eeastman@apple2.com
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:13:04 -0500
> Subject: Re: Why a shortage of IDE drives?
> 
> Nobody would even think of trying to pawn off a 2.5" drive of less than a
> gig.  Most get tossed automatically.  :(   There is also the issue of
> consistency.  I have no problem trying outseveral different sizes of HD form
> different vendors from my scrapped laptops, but when you sell commercially,
> you'd like a consistent product that you know will work.  (I have one drive
> that will not boot, it appears to store and retrieve fine, it just will not
> boot.
> 
> my 2 cents.
> 
> eeastmanNOSPAM@apple2.com
> 
> Obsbedia2 wrote:
> 
>> Why has Alltech had trouble finding IDE drives with all of those notebook
>> computers around?
>