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From: a590700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (USS Account Creation account)
Subject: Re: Compatible Tape Drives (QIC-80)
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:15:56 GMT

In article <BxBA0v.A0D@news.iastate.edu> twp57@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>I am new to the LINUX world and I would like to start using it.
>Because of my storage needs I plan to get a tape drive.
>I need to know if LINUX will support a QIC-80 tape drive?

The answer is no at the moment.

>I understand that the MAXTOR 213 does not work well with this OS.
>Can I run LINUX on my MAXTOR 7120A(127MB)?
>
>I am thinking about the new IOMEGA 250MB tape drive of the SUMMIT
>305MB IDE unit.

Stephen Wong.
(a590700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ah017@yfn.ysu.edu (John B. Lee)
Subject: Need help getting mtools on my system
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:02:31 GMT


How do you get mtools on your Linux system.  Following what I have heard
about it I rawrote it to my floppy.  I then booted Linux and tried to mount
the floppy.  No good, I got a bad I/O error message.  Anybody know how
to install mtools?

John Lee
usr7245a@tso.uc.edu
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From: donbon@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu (Donald L Bonaddio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Seyon: xterm complains
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:04:28 GMT
Organization: /afs/pitt.edu/usr10/donbon/.organization
In-reply-to: tree@midget.towson.edu's message of 11 Nov 92 14:20:36 GMT

I also got this message.
It will also give you this message if you try to start an xterm.
If your xterm(from which you're trying to run Seyon) was started as a login
shell (xterm -ls) you will get the error.
Try starting an xterm without '-ls'(Or change .twmrc , add menu item to start
Seyon )
good luck
db
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From: lairdt@CS.ORST.EDU (Tom Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Install problem SLS0.98p3
Date: 8 Nov 92 06:45:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1did1eINNjn9
Distribution: na
Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: storm.cs.orst.edu
Originator: lairdt@storm.CS.ORST.EDU

I just got SLS 0.98p3 from tsx-11. I formatted my drive (/dev/hdb1
with 62945 blocks) with no problems. When I tried to doinstall I
get through disk a2 fine, but then the program pukes and says something
about a bad FS when I try to have it read a3. From Dos, a3 checks out
as being ok.

Here's what it spits back as the disk stats when trying to read a3:

me=0xC0 cs=240 #f=10 fs=20510 fl=55438 ds=50602 de=30162 data=52487
se=13083 ts=-13722593

Is this a problem because I'm trying to install on /dev/hdb1 or something
else?
From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with sysinstall seeing diska4 during install
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:41:55 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

dbb@unislc.uucp (Doug Beattie) writes:

> While attempting to install the SLS 0.98 version of linux I have
> run into a problem loading disk a4 which displays as follows:
> 
> error: you may have inserted the wrong disk, try again (y/n)?

Check to make sure that all files are on the disk. Particularly the
file 'diskc4.' (This filename just needs to exist on the disk. It's
contents aren't needed by install for anything).


--- 
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: test
From: David Pincus <PINHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Sunday, 8 Nov 1992 17:32:58 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Just a test.
-------
Think small - molecular biology !      pinhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mc499424@longs.lance.colostate.edu (mohamed chouicha)
Subject: Re: Q: X installation, font path problem?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:51:14 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <BxG0EH.HM4@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, pcrichar@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Pat Richard) writes:
|> In article <BxFnpI.Avx@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> jjeong@thoralf.uwaterloo.ca (Joohee Jeong) writes:
|> 
|> >I tried installing SLS package and everything worked fine
|> >until I startx.  It complained something about default font path,
|> 
|> -- stuff omitted --
|> 
|> >which I couldn't quite understood because that was the correct 
|> >failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/'
|> >Fatal server error:
|> >could not open default font 'fixed'
|> >
|> >giving up.
|> >xinit:  Invalid argument (errno 22):  unable to connect to X server
|> >xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
|> >
|> 
|> I ran into the same problem. Looking into the other Xconfig files, you'll
|> notice that some of them don't have the Speedo or the Type1 dirs in the 
|> font path. So I removed these two from my Xconfig, leaving only the
|> 75dpi and the misc dirs in the font path. Then X worked fine.
|> 
|> I still haven't been able to get X to use the Type1, Speedo or Bitstream
|> Type1 fonts yet, though.
|> 
|> Also, make sure that the fonts are compressed and that there is a good
|> font directory in that dir (i.e. use mkfontdir)...
|> -- 
|> 
|> Smoke another, brother... and THANX for 'whatever' ! 
|> Pat C. Richard, 
|> pcrichar@cayley.uwaterloo.ca


    
    Hi,
   
     Two questions from a novice:
  
      1. do the fonts need to be compress or uncompress ?
      2.  what is mkfontdir , where it can be found, and how I'll use it ?

     Thank in advance.

    Amine.
From: Scott.T.Carpenter@p899.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Scott T Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: modem help
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 10:03:44 -0800

In a msg on <Nov 02 03:27>, Jim Danley of 1:233/20 writes:

 JD> Run, don't walk, to tsx-11.mit.edu and grab

 JD>     /pub/linux/sources/sbin/gettyps202.tar.Z

 JD> It includes everything you'll need including src, Makefile, man 
 JD> pages, and a

Thanks for the reply Jim... I have a friend who can get that for me... 

Does anyone know of a dial-up I can use that gives internet FTP access??
I have a USR D/S and so getting off of the dial-up is not a problem... I
just don't have an internet hook-up. If ANYONE has any tips or hints as
to how I can either get a hook-up (I know they are pretty expensive
though) or or get a dial-up I'd love to hear from you...

Scott

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sl313028@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The black guy.)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 286?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:22:21 GMT

In article <9211120618.AA01500@polar.bowdoin.edu> cwilbur@polar.bowdoin.edu (Charlton Wilbur) writes:
>I haven't seen this in any documentation YET - maybe I'm looking in the wrong
>places, but I'm trying to RTFM - but can Linux run on a 286-16? I don't care
>about X.       
>
>My hardware is
>	80286 - 16 MHZ
>	40 MB hard drive
>	one of each size HD floppy
>	1 MB RAM
>
>Is it possible?
no. it's a 32-bit operating system, and i'm afraid that your 286 is not
(32-bit). (what am *i* afraid for??? (:  )
>
>Charlton Wilbur
>cwilbur@polar.bowdoin.edu
jon madison
sl313028@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
>


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tema@snakemail.hut.fi (Teemu Lehtonen )
Subject: Creating Xconfig ?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:08:10 GMT

I remember that somebody mentionend having built an spreadsheet
about Xconfig entries. If someone has this spreadsheet or an
excel equal I'd like to have it or to have the name of the anonftp-site
where i can ftp it.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: zwerin@xylophone.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Zwerin)
Subject: Re: Proposal to help people w/out net access get Linux
Originator: zwerin@xylophone.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: Ohio State Computer Science
	<KFOGEL.92Nov8111742@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:10:45 GMT

In university settings, one possible way to get the message out, would
be to start a local users group.

I and several others here at The Ohio State University are discussing
just that.  We feel that there should be a an installation kit that
others could borrow or copy (most likely SLS, which is excellent),
documentation of some kind, and access to people that can help with at
least, but not limited to, installation.

We would also like to start some local projects that those in the user
group could participate in.

It would be nice if we could make it a club/organization officially
recognized by the Student Activities Committee.

As for advertising, we could post to local news groups, as well as
posting signs around campus.  It may also be possible to do some
advertising at some point.

Has anyone else started such a group?  I would be interested in
hearing about your experiences.

andy
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Ching-Hsiang Chen <chchen@stat.fsu.edu>
Subject: LILO confusion
Reply-To: chchen@stat.fsu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:20:49 GMT

I finally printed out the LILO postscript documentation. While I was playing
with LILO (God blessed me to not kill my HD :) ), I found different command
lines are needed to make it work in different situations (my Linux is in
/dev/hda3):

  1. Booting from MCC-interim BOOT/ROOT disks(no /etc/lilo in RAMDISK):

     mount /dev/hda3 /root
     cd /root/etc/lilo
     ln -s /root/etc/lilo /etc/lilo (nessary?)
     /etc/lilo/lilo -i /etc/lilo/boot.b -c -b /dev/hda -m map \
      linux=/root/etc/Image

  2. Booting from HJ's bootable ROOT disk(with /etc/lilo):

     mount /dev/hda3 /root
     cd /root/etc/lilo
     ./lilo -r /root -i /etc/lilo/boot.b -c -b /dev/hda -m map \
       linux=/etc/Image
     (note that I still need '/etc/lilo/' before boot.b otherwise LILO can not
      find the file boot.b; don't know why)

   3. Booting from hard disk by LILO and want to upgrade new kernel image or
      new LILO version:

      cd /etc/lilo
      ./lilo -i boot.b -c -b /dev/hda -m map linux=/etc/Image
      
Since I am preparing Linux disks for my friends in other cities and am 
writing some intructions for them, I got confused with these commands.     
However, the above 3 sets of commands worked. Any kind soul likes to
enlighten me how I can simplify any of these?

Steve Chen       chchen@stat.fsu.edu
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re:    TCP/IP w/ ethernet wd8003
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:53:27 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <92315.081920K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>, <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET> writes:
| hi.
| finally i got config to say something other than "socket: Protocal not supp..."
| still i have problems. *:-)
| our university is the net 140.78 in Austria. the pc where i want to install
| linux is on a subnet at this university, 140.78.4, and the pc itself should
| be assigned the ip-number 140.78.4.41.
| The gateway is (that is the ROUTER, from the /usr/etc/inet/rc.local ???)
| 140.78.4.31.
| 
| I try to startup the device now:
| 
| > #!/bin/sh
| > config loopback 127.0.0.1
| > config -r 140.78.4.31 -n 140.78.4.0 -d eth0 140.78.4.41
| > inetd

  Change the netmask to 255.255.255.0 for starters. The mask should be
all ones down to the subnet level, so a class C subnet would use
0xffffff00 as I've shown.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (David Mulcihy [483-1884 coopes])
Subject: Removing Linux from Hard Drive
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:20:29 GMT

Is there some way to remove Linux and regain the partition and disk space
under DOS? I repartitioned the drive to where it is just one big drive, but
DOS still shows the old size for the drive.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
David Mulcihy
mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
From: cs89rdb@brunel.ac.uk (Roger D Binns)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Partioning programs
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:16:21 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I am attempting to get more than one extended partition on my hard disk.
Can someone tell me if does will fall over, and what program to use to do
it.  Current versions of fdisk report that 'you may not do it'.

It is not an option to reorganise the other extended partition, as I don't
have enough floppies.

Roger
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: schumann@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Erik Schumann)
Subject: Q: Fido-Mailer for Linux ? 
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:39:45 GMT

Hello.

I worked the whole weekend, trying to get Binkley Term in a working shape for 
my system as a point-mailer. It didn`t work !
I suppose that`s because the version I got is in source, but without
documentation :-(

So, if anyone got a working version of Bink or any other fido-mailer, which
is suitible for points (WITH DOC!) please send me an ftp-adress,
where to get it. Possible including conversion-tools from fido to uucp.

Thanks a lot,
            Erik.
From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Let's use /proc to eliminate "ps U"
Date: 7 Nov 92 23:28:40 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR

In article <2AFB0915.5B81@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.):
>>	cwd@   exe@   fd/    lib/   mem    root@
>
>You know, by extending this info a bit, we could finally eliminate
>version incompatibilities from "ps".  Just think: no more "ps U"...

Yup.  I think the ideal solution would be to reimplement/update the
proc filesystem based on the Plan 9 proc filesystem, which is geared
toward that sort of flexibility.  Anybody want to tackle it?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rwp@fc.hp.com (Bob Proulx)
Subject: Re: UUCP
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 05:14:34 GMT
Organization: Fort Collins
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Mitchel F. Ludwig (ludwig@wefunk.rent.com) wrote:
: beyond that.  No logs for uux, nothing...

Again, you may already know this but...  Standard HoneyDanBer (BNU)
uucp puts log under a hidden directory /usr/spool/uucp/.Logs.  Look
under that directory for your log files.  Use "ls -la" (show all
files, long listing) to see files begining with a dot.

Bob
From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLIP support for Linux?
Keywords: slip linux tcpip
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:34:38 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA

Is there any SLIP support for Linux?

-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu
From: purtill@idacrd.UUCP (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: linux on an AMD-386/40?
Summary: does it work?
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:35:01 GMT
Organization: idacrd, princeton, nj


	Has anyone got linux to work on a machine using the AMD 386/40 
clone chip?  The specific model I'm think of is a Fast Micro (the one
in their recent catalog that I seem to have misplaced).  Is there any
reason to suspect it won't work?
	Email to me, I'll summarize to the net.

^.-.^ Mark Purtill, purtill@ccr-p.ida.org || purtill%idacrd@uunet.uu.net
((")) \@_: IDA/CCR-P, Thanet Road, Princeton NJ  08540;  (609) 924-4600.
Alternate email: purtill%idacrd@princeton.edu UUCP: uunet!idacrd!purtill

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Subject: X with ATI Graphics Vantage
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:36:11 GMT


I have followed the install instructions to a tee but when I try to
start up X with the startx command I get the following error:

	failed to set default font path 'usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc' Fatal server error Couldn't open default
font 'fixed' giving up.

Does anybody know what my problem might be?
-- 

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        James Robie Skinner        |     Jodrey School of Computer Science        James.Skinner@dragon.acadiau.ca  |  Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------------
From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: UUCP
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:18:16 GMT
Organization: WEFUNK, the Mothership Connection. East Brunswick, NJ

Ok, as you can see, I'm not posting this message from my Linux
machine.  This is causing me great pain.  I've installed the
mailpak-1.3 and have got elm and mail working locally.  Mail sent
locally works cool.  Only problem is, any mail I try to send outside
my system ends up in dead letter.  I've got a paths file with my
smart-host defined, and I've tried it with smail and without...
Here's the way it all looks...

My paths file...

   smart-host		bobsbox

Nothing else...

When I don't use smail, externally sent mail ends up in dead.letter.
Elm tells me the mail is sent.  In my /usr/spool/uucp/bobsbox
directory, there is one file.  The C.??? with the data 

   S D.wefunkN0026 D.wefunkN0026 root -C D.wefunkN0026 0666
   S D.wefunkX0025 X.wefunkX0025 root -C D.wefunkX0025 0666

Nothing else.  My mail is in /tmp/dead.letter, and I get no errors
beyond that.  No logs for uux, nothing...

When I use smail, the same type of thing happens, but instead of
dead.lettering the mail, I get an "undelevered" error, with the error

   Error executing 
   	uux -aroot - bobsbox!rmail '(ludwig)'

So, anyone know what's going wrong?

Thanks...

Mitch

(By the way, please mail responses back as well as posting them.
It's near impossible to read the entire comp.os.linux...

Mitch



...
Mitchel F. Ludwig               :   The desired effect is what you get..
ludwig@wefunk.rent.com          :   When you improve your interplanetary
"The Mothership Connection"     :              Funksmanship...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: upgrading SLS
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 17:23:48 GMT


Several people have complained that it is hard to upgrade from
SLS .96 to .98.  I suppose that the real solution requires an
addition of an upgrade option to the install program that
can delete all of the previous installation.  I will look at it,
while I am looking at the mounting /usr to a different partition.
It may take a while (priorities you know).

Also, I think I will add to all the z?fix.taz files, the script
to make sure the major directories have the correct permissions.

Finally, packages like SLS do not eliminate all newbie questions
/postings.  Newbies will always ask a certain number of questions
before running out of gas.  The functions of these packages is to
let them get a lot further into the system before the fuel expires.
So instead of questions like "where do I get ps", we get questions
that help debug a system for general use.

Peter.
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Subject: Seyon: xterm complains 
Reply-To: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:20:36 GMT


Hi Activists,

	I tried out Seyon-0.5 this morning but only got the complaint:
	
	"xterm: can't find useable termcap entry"
  I couldn't find what was bothering xterm in the sources though.
  I have the usual termcap entries for xterms:vs,v2,vb and one for 
  vi roughage ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ... usage.

  Thanks to all!
______________________________________________________________________
_______________ Denise Tree
____________________________tree@midget.towson.edu
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From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HELP: installing xv.
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:55:24 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

The instructions for installing xv are not too good.  If anyone has any
hints on how to install or helpufl pointers they can pass along I will
greatly appreciate it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
Subject: Re: Problem w/P4 and EMACS
Reply-To: hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:50:55 GMT

From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
| Linux should use m-intel386 (with any necessary modifications) rather than
| introducing a new m- header.  
| 
| I've started work on configuration files and patches for emacs 18.59.

Actually, Rick Sladkey's patches for 18.58 still work with 18.59.  You
just have to apply them by hand.

    -Hutch

--------------------------------------
Bob Hutchinson                            
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
(hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil)
From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need bash/make guru
Date: 11 Nov 1992 13:19:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <1992Nov10.125358.28549@ncsu.edu> jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE) writes:
>                        fi                                                    \
>                done                                                          \
>        fi;                                                                   \
>        exit 0
>
>When this is executed, the shell complains that there is a syntax error near
>the word done.

Add semicolons after the `fi' and `done'.  Since the line is continued, the
newline disappears, and the shell doesn't see any separator token.

Chet
-- 
``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
	-- Arthur Schlesinger

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
From: swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Maxtor
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:55:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: master.1dc1ntINNj41
Reply-To: swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

Well I have a brand new Maxtor 7213 IDE hard drive.  It works great.  I
am running a DOS partition and a Linux partition, and have had NO
problems period.  I have not looked to see what the number on my
prom is, but then I haven't had any reason to.  I think it is a great
drive, and very well priced.  I would recommend it to anyone.

			Jeff Swartz