Hi, For what it's worth, originally I 'special-ordered' a WD 20Gig HD for my new Linux system a few years ago. (i had been dual-booting for a while.) With LM 8.0 and 8.2, I experienced intermittent segmentation faults, which sent me searching lists for possible cures.
As soon as I was able, I replaced the WD with a Maxtor, and the problems ceased. Perhaps the warnings that the HD could fail prompted me to act sooner -- why risk all your data on a drive that 'might' cause problems? The cost of HDs have dropped dramatically, so it seems foolish to risk data corruption for a few bucks. Just my penny, Regards, Andre On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:43 am, you wrote: > June-Jerry Kreps wrote: > On Tuesday 01 October 2002 05:51 am, J. Grant wrote: > > Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux > then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from them. > > JG > > > I have two WD drives, 30 GB each, and they work great. > JLK > > luckily for me my WD drive was ranked 2nd in this review. Realy you need > a huge test set to get consistent results though > > http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1540/ > > JG
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