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Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 06:07:59 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:22 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Les you must have had a real hard time with something. I have not
>> moved a hard drive in 4 years. 
> 
> It's a common enough thing to do.  You have a box come in, and a simple
> test is to put a hard drive in from another working system instead of
> its own.  You want to buy new hardware, you decide to test it by putting
> in a preset drive, rather than sit through an install.  The list could
> go on and on about all sorts of reasons about why you might transplant a
> drive.

Most of my machines are servers with swappable drive carriers and they 
are in several different locations.  The easiest way to make changes is 
to build a working copy in the lab, ship the disk, and have someone swap 
it into the appropriate server.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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