Hello David Walluck,
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:16:34 -0400 (EDT) GMT your local time,
which was Wednesday, June 07, 2000, 1:16:34 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
David Walluck wrote:
> Sorry, I can't say anything for Windows 98 because I've never used it more
> than a couple times as I don't have it installed. However, my friend has a
> 17G WDC and runs Win98 and his drive seemed to be working fine and he had
> 4 drives in there I think. However, on this list I remember at least 4
> people report DMA not working on larget WDC drives. Maybe a call to their
> tech support is in order, but they may just say they don't support Linux
> and not help you. But frankly with these problems I am wanting to get my
> drive replaced. Do yu know how much slower things are with DMA turned off?
> Anyway, to recap, I know nothing about Win98 problems, nut my friend's
> Win98 and WDC drive works fine. As for Linux, when I have DMA turned on I
> get constant errors and data corruption. When I have hdparm run it just
> hangs the drive. Are any of these three symptoms similar to yours? I can
> live without the hdparm thing, as that's not guarnteed to work anyway, but
> having to leave DMA off really bothers me.
DMA seems to work under 98 but its not anywhere as fast as it should be.
At least not on my system.
As I said I have my linux on 8 gb drives to keep things simple...
And thats a Quantum and no problem with that.
But my 98 is fairly straightforward and optimized and since the last
few weeks even stable (sorry for saying this but normally its anything
BUT stable....(g))
I run a small oem and to be honest, I donot sell Western Digital OR
Fujitsu... We use Quantums (first choice) or Seagate (second).
In the hot humid climate we have, Fujitsus have to be very lucky to
survive the first year and WD normally nothing but a headache.
Mine were kind of inherited via a gift and as I donot want to make
my customers unhappy I use them myself... or better the Kiddies will
(g)
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