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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:09:37 +0200 (MEST)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>   Besides the problem that most drive manufacturers now seem to use
> cheese as the data storage surface, I think there are some other
> problems:
> 
>   1) I don't trust drive firmware.

Time for Open Source/Free Software to enter a new market segment... ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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