Sounds like you got a bad batch of drives. I've used Western Digital drives in 4 Linux boxes I've put together. All machines run 24/7. My own primary home machine has been running Linux 24/7 for the last 4 years. The only problem I had was last month when a WD 1.6 GB drive died a sudden and very noisy death--with only one month left on the warranty. (Guess if it had to go, that was the best time for it to die. :-)
Given all the Linux installations around the world, *if* Linux could kill hard drive hardware, we would have discovered it long ago. (And it would have been fixed *very* quickly. Note how quickly, Alan Cox found and fixed the remote crash bug in the kernel.) bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\ /) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/ 60,000 head of livestock \) no place like $HOME. "CIA terrorist NSA bomb spy KGB drugs nuclear agent war GCHQ... Hi Echelon!"