MyOrg's own IT Dept - yes. Support not outsourced.
PC is old 200MHz P1 with 64MB and 1GB HDD running Win95
The LBA BIOS should support at least 2GB (if not 4.2GB or 8.4GB).
I did think about doing it myself on the quiet (I've built several
machines and installed many drives, so I know what I'm doing)
but I'd have had to break the lead/wire seal on the case.
It's not IT policy to purchase 2nd hand material. Donations cannot be to specific Depts. but only to the Org. as a whole (who'll decide what to do with 'em).
As best I know 'pre-owned donations' are politely accepted and then binned [understandable as a general policy]. Unsolicited donations go to storage from which they tend to vanish if they have any genuine value.
I take the point about hardware/software standardisation, but this is an ordinary Seagate IDE HDD, not a laser cannon on a PDP-10/TOPS.
Told them that the drive had worked happily in a P1, a P2 and that I'd tested it recently in my P3, but all they could say was
- Yes, but what if it DOES blow up the mobo? (!?!?!)
Latest: Unusual request might be considered at next monthly IT committee. Apparently not much hope of approval. So it goes.
Do airlines have committees to ponder things like an another office bogroll? Can't anyone make simple commonsense decisions anymore? I dunno....