I have had no difficulties running LM 8 on a Western Digital 30GB 7200 RPM
UATA 100 internal IDE hard drive. My mobo is an ABIT BP6 & I needed to
adjust the BIOS to detect the drive in LBA mode, but other than that tweak,
everything's great.
J.B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Expert List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives?
> Actually Brian, to the best of my knowledge that problem still exists.
> It's not a problem with Mandrake - it's actually a problem with the way
> the WD drives are made. Maxtors work great with any flavor of Mandrake so
> far as I've seen.
>
> --
>
> Mark
> *****
>
> "what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years
> at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast
> emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)"
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, Brian Hartman wrote:
>
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I'm considering upgrading my Mandrake, but I heard of the 8.0 beta that
they
> > were having trouble with Western Digital drives. I assume that they
fixed
> > the problem, but I just wanted to make sure.
> >
> > Brian Hartman
> >
>
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