The Other wrote:
07/03/03
Hello Tobi,
The difficulty I'm having now may be the same problem you're having.
Mandrake 9.1 PowerPack CDs installed flawlessly on a Maxtor hard drive.
I never got them to install on a Western Digital 6.4GB drive I bought a few years ago.
The Maxtor was a bad drive and it's been sent back for repair/replacment. So at this time I can't confirm that I've damaged the Install 1 CD from the PowerPack, or if it is indeed the older Western Digital drive that is causing the problems. I used the Western Digital utilities to confirm that the WD drive is working properly.
Hi The Other,
Did you try "Writing All Zeros" to the WD drive from WD Utilities?
The only time I have had a problem with a WD drive is when I let Partition Magic
"correct" what it said was an error in a partition set up by Linux. After that, the
only way I could get the drive to function properly was "Write All Zeros."
That was about two years ago, and that drive is still running fine now.
I'm currently using about fifteen WD drives (and one Maxtor). All are running
well on Linux, FreeBSD, and one even has Win98 too, in case I have to run
something in that. I don't let the Windows unit access the Internet though. ;-)
Bob
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