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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7088)	4/16/1999 5:25:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) of 14778

Shoot the tech support an email if you want, but you risk shooting yourself in the long metatarsals if you plug a strange IDE drive in without dismounting the file system on the previous drive somehow (dismount means disconnect from the file system on it). Don't ask me how. Maybe there's a way, but I don't know it. Think of what that drive cache means. Think you're new drive will feel when it receives the sectors written out that were cached from the old drive. Think how you will feel when you find out how your drive feels. I believe the common thread running through all this is think ... <ggg>. Spots

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