On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:20, Brian Parish wrote: > I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say > anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently > applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake > groups - probably a year back now - in which some people including > Civileme talked about WD drives relying on W$ drivers to implement ECC > and therefore being subject to corruption when used with linux. > > If this has been fixed, or was a hideous slur on WD, or whatever, it > would be great to know. As it stands I am reluctant to use them, but > maybe I'm missing out on a great product. > > TIA > Brian
Not only is it not fixed... I personally feel it's gotten worse. I was forced to install during a recent install fest on a number of WD drives and to be honest not a one of them worked worth a dang. I could never get one to work reliably above UDMA2 (nor could winders, which is how we got them for free.) If all of those drives hadn't been donated I personally wouldn't have done anything but trash them. James > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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