I'm not fun of any Disk manager or alike, they cause too many troubles. I
prefer normal FDISK. Use of Partition magic, might be good, but I still
believe well planned partition before you install OS is better.

Maybe becasue I work as Computer tech, so I dislike many.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Neal" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Matrox/Quantum compatibility.


> Has anybody had experience with these products since they merged?, or
> rather, since Quantum was merged almost out of sight ?
>
> Some time ago, before the merger, I bought a Quantum Fireball Plus AS
> 20Gb. drive.
> A quick look at their website at the time recommended using 'Disk
> Manager' to format and partition.
> Since the merger, their websites have also merged, and now 'MaxBlast' is
> recommended for both HDDs. However, a little further reading states,
> " There must be at least one Maxtor Hard Disk Drive installed in the
> system for MaxBlast Plus to run "
> I presume some-one has forgotten to add the words, "or Quantum" - ( as
> opposed to rival companys products )
>
> I need to partition the drive into two, to allow for a Linux partition.
> ( I know Linux can do this, - but a clean install is the aim )
> At some future stage I intend to add a second HDD. and will probably buy
> 'Partition Magic' or similar, as a way of managing it all.

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