I don't like to talk bad about brands, but Western Digital is one of the few that I discuss. Western Digital has a wonderfull warrenty and is quite easy to exchange bad HD's when needed. The problem is that WD hard drives have to be replaced more often than any other brand that I have touched. Lyle P.S. I am a IT consultant that started out building clone PC's and still do fix a few PC's every month, so my personal knowledge base on this subject is larger than most. -----Original Message----- From: Nicolas Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 5:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel panic on boot Mark Weaver wrote : > I hate to tell you this, but you very well may have a hardware conflict > on this particular machine. It's quite possibly your hard drive. There > are some changes in the HCL between Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 that you may > want to check on at the Mandrake site. I seem to remember some talk of > this problem here on the list sometime back. If I remember correctly WD > hdd's were the point of the discussion. > -- > Mark Weaver > IT Dept./Reapernet.com > Destiny Image Publishers > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I took a look at the expert list archive and found some problems with the Western Digital HDD. I installed mdk7.1 on another hard disk and there is no problem. In the list archive I found a black list of "old" WD hdd not supported by Linux, my HD isn't in the list but I think it have to be added. I think there is some modifications, about hardrive handling, from 2.2.14 to 2.2.15, or configurations changes between mdk7.0 and mdk7.1 ? It's a strange decision to stop supporting 4-5 years old hardware ! -- ____________________________________________ Nicolas Justin - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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