Nelson Bartley wrote: > Question for you guys, why do you dislike WD hard drives?
They are the hardware equivalent of Internet Exploder, designed for windoze, which means compliance only with WD/M$ standards, not industry standards. Other drive makers have conformed to the various ATA specs over the years, while WD has their own EIDE specs, theoretically compatible with ATA (and also theoretically supersets of ATA specs), but not in the real world. Ignoring their poorer than average reliability, [in windoze] they work fine as long as they are the only IDE device on a channel. Mix them with other brands on the same channel, and their non-compliance with ATA specs can be trouble. Example: unless they've changed since last I checked, WD drives have three different jumper settings, Master, Slave, Single. ATA drives only have two, Master/Single, and Slave. -- ". . . wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her." Proverbs 8:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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