On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the info. I hadn't been aware of these issues. I had always
had a good opinion of WD, but that's been changing lately :)
