On Monday 21 May 2001 11:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As I understand it, the problem is on the newer drives.
> See these links:
>
> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20000731_78_print.html#2
> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20000214_54_print.html#2
> There is more, but this is what I could find quickly.
>
> Andre Hedrick, the linux IDE developer/maintainer, has had somewhat
> of a running feud with Western Digital over this issue.
>
> Western Digital performance tends to suck anyway, and the price
> advantage isn't to much. I wouldn't go with WD right now.
> Eric
Interesting, thanks for the links Eric. Just what you say is why I
wouldn't buy WD, IBM's are better, cheaper. I have both on ata/33
which I guess is why I haven't been affected by the WD problem cited on
the links. Hdparm has the WD at 10.4mb/sec, the IBM at 22.2 with the
same settings ;)
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
