Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
Maxtor (in my opinion).
--- Charles Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Chuck,
> >
> > Point well taken. ;-) you aren't by any chance
> using Western Digital hard
> > drives in your machine are you?
> >
>
> Ack.. As a matter of fact I am
> I have two caviar drives, a 307AA (30.7 gig) and
> 136AA(13.6gig)
>
> Is that a problem? I don't remember seeing anything
> about not using
> them.
> Under 7.1 and 7.2 they seemed to work nicely.
>
> Why am I using WD? Well, this machine isn't a
> "production" machine,
> it's
> one that I can install, screw up, and re-install at
> will and the WD
> drives were what I had.
> do you suggest that I should try a different drive?
> I can scrounge up a
> MAXTOR
> or switch to a nice little SEAGATE ultra-wide (I
> don't have a SCSI card
> in now, but will if it will help)
>
> One thing is that I do use reiserFS on every
> partition.
> Sometime back I read a suggestion to leave /boot as
> ext2, but it didn't
> seem to matter.
>
>
> thanks
>
> chuck
>
> BTW: Mandrake is my favorite dist, so any "carping"
> on my part should be
> considered "in family"
>
> --
> Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
> Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.
>
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