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From: cjohnson@venice.sedd.trw.com (Clarence Johnson)
Subject: Second Drive : WHICH HARD DISK TO BUY??
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I've install the 386bsd binary distribution and XFree386(still having problems).
I tried Installing the source distribution but ran out of space.  Ideally I
would like to install the etc distribution in addition to the source 
distribution and have some space left over for whatever.  I've come to 
conclusion that I need to buy another hard drive.  My question is what 
type of drive is best for a 386bsd second drive(IDE,SCSI,etc)?  
How about size?  Anything to avoid?  My current system is :

           Gateway 386/33Mhz
	   120mb ide drive(90mb partition for 386bsd)
	   4meg RAM
             
Thanks in advance.

Clarence Johnson
cjohnson@sonya.sedd.trw.com
TRW inc.