On 16/1/06 23:33, Mark Benson wrote:
Western Digital have never curried much favour with me. Their drives
have always been 'so-so'.
I've never had a reliability or performance problem with them, but
sometimes they just don't seem to play well.
I bought a Sonnet ATA/133 card for my B&W lately along with a 120GB WD
and the card won't recognize it, nor an old 5400rpm 20GB WD. Both work
with the motherboard ATA/33. A Seagate 80GB 7200 works fine both on and
off the card. Checking on xlr8yourmac.com recently I discovered quite a
few references to similar problems.
One day I'll try banging the WD and Sonnets' heads together again,
though at the moment the WD is just used for serving the network so
drive capacity is more important than speed.
Neil
(hopefully this won't appear twice on the list...I tried sending it
yesterday and it bounced due to a 'quota reached" error)
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