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Re:Writing a Bootloader by BearOso on Saturday October 21, 2017 @12:59AM (#15520756)
Given the year, that sounds suspiciously like the IBM 75gxp Deathstar fiasco. It probably wasn’t your fault at all.
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Re:Writing a Bootloader by ChickeNES on Saturday October 21, 2017 @02:03AM (#15520873)
Was about to say the same when I refreshed and saw your comment. For GP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...
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Re:Writing a Bootloader by khedoros1 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:10AM (#15521007)
1999, maybe 2000, with 6.4GB and 8.4GB drives (I suspect they were WDs, based on disk utility floppies I've got around from that era). It looks like the affected Deskstars were 15-75GB, and probably at least a year later, right?
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