j wrote: >>If you're looking at very new hardware, .... I've had very bad > experiences >>with Tyan mobos, Lite-On optical drives, and Western Digital hard drives. > > since i have been eyeing the lite-on dvd writers and WD hard drives, would > you care to share what "bad" experiences you had w/these products? also, > under which distro(s) (& version #) were these items used?
All of these experiences are with hardware failure, not compatiblity. When I was first looking into getting into Linux (Redhat 7.1, I believe), the only ATAPI CD-ROM that they claimed they were incompatible with was Lite-On CD-ROMs. That just screams of Lite-Ons taking shortcuts in their hardware. I had a Lite-On just before that, and the thing died 6 months after I bought it (using Windows). A company I work for decided to dabble into 64 bit Linux, and, since Tyan has a bit of a headstart in Opteron mobos, we bought three. We ended up having to send back the board for one computer twice and another once, and we're still living with broken onboard LAN ports. This was under Gentoo. I have a 3.5 GB Maxtor that still works that I bought as an upgrade for a 486. I've had several WD drives give up the ghost in that span of time. I can't say that WDs are the worst of the hard drive manufacturers, but I can say that I've never been disappointed with a Maxtor drive. Chad Martin ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hal4956/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122749779/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
