> Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> Maxtor (in my opinion).
Why do you say that. I've hd nothing but good luck with Maxtor hardrives.
I currently have a ten, 2 twenties, and 1 thirty at home that are running
just fine. Then at work we use Maxtor drives in our test machines, which
get beaten on relentlessly. Only one of those drives ever died, and that
was only because one of our part time testers dropped the sucker on the
floor.
As far as Western Digital drives go, I've owned two, and I'll never use
another. Though the two I have are still working, barely, one of them
won'ttake the NTFS filesystem anymore, and the other won't run as a
master.
Thanks
> --- 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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