On Sunday 20 May 2001 11:15, 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
In one sense it is fixed--it was a VIA chipset/WD combination problem--and in
another sense it will never be fixed.
WD drives lack essential hardware error-checking for UDMA3 and up, including
ATA/66 and ATA/100. The result of this just plain stupid cost-cutting
decision is that if the channel is noisy, the first inkling you have that the
data is bad is when you cannot read it off the disk. Moreover, WD states at
shows and elsewhere that their disks support windows and Solaris ONLY.
Civileme
