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Subject: Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 02:29:30 -0600 From: Jack and Melissa McSwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 16 December 2002 09:01 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > 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, I have a pair of wd300bb's on a highpoint controller in raid0 configuration and I have had absolutely no problems in linux (mandrake 8.1 and 9.0) or any of the winblows O/s's. Maybe its the class of drive ie protege or caviar and possibly a combination of ide chipset. I have a small 8.4gb WD or Maxtor on the SIS5513 chipset on board and I do have problems with it if dma is enabled. Its hard to tell with these things. I see people having problems with the NVidia drivers and every release I have used is rock solid. After messing around with WIn98 on this new hardware I have come to appreciate just how good Linux is. I have pretty much dumped Mickey Soft. I still have a 98 partition to boot incase I run across something I cant do in linux, but that hasnt happened yet. When I tried Max Payne under WineX, MS was history. Jack -------------------------------------------------------
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