On Monday 16 December 2002 12:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday December 16 2002 06:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the > > archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete > > explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the > > way WD has chosen to not follow DMA standards. Linux does rather > > strict checking and WD doesn't so WD drives can be problematic. > > > > James > > Civileme reported that WD's no longer supported CRC checking other > that in Windoze. I believe he pronounced them as Win-harddrives. > > As an old timey overclocker, we clockers learned to quit usin > Western Digital HDD's circa summer 1998. Before that they had a > reputation for 'takes a lickin, keeps on tickin' among oc'rs. The > issue remains the same, WD's went from being some of the best on an > off-spec PCI bus (33.3mhz) ... to the worst. > > Civileme, as I relate to his past reports, said it was due to CRC > short cuts. To save a few $$'s, WD transfered this from firmware to > software. He also reported that WD's response to him was that their > drives were not supported under Linux, only Winsux and Solaris by NDA > and licensing agreements.
This topic has been covered extensively in the past. I sent a query to Western Digital regarding this issue of non-support. Here is their response: Response (Barb G) - 07/23/2002 07:58 AM Greetings Jonathan, Thank you for your email. We have no issues with Western Digital drives being installed with Linux or Unix. If you have more detailed information on specific issues, I would be happy to address them. Or, if you can provide the web site where these issues are being discussed we can address them to the customer. If your friends are having issues with a drive they should be contacting our technical support desk, or test the drive with our utilities. We do not warranty a drive based on the operating system used. Western Digital will honor the warranty on any drive in the event of a drive failure, as long as the drive is in warranty. If the drive carrys no warranty, or the warranty has expired, we cannot replace the drive. If I can be of further assistance, please let me know. Seems clear as far as WD is concerned. Personally, I have used their drives for many years with no problems at all. I currently have two 40 GIG, a 6 GIG and a 10 GIG WD drive. Also, a Seagate 40 GIG drive, which also works well but has always been very noisy. All Maxtor drives I have tried in the past have failed the first day I used them, all with unrecoverable bad sectors. Cheers, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Monday, December 16, 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------- "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people" -Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9
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