On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:13 am, Aaron West wrote: > Hey gang, > > I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. > I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is > to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The > current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small at > 15GB. I am in the market for a higher capacity drive - > anything from 80GB up - and wanted to get some advice before > I buy anything. Are there any drives I should stay away from > or is just getting any IDE drive (like a Maxtor DiamondMax > Plus 7200rpm IDE) going to work. I'd like to get the new > hard drive in, install 9.1 on it, and then hook up my > current 15GB drive as a slave for possibly holding all my > music data. > Anything but Western Digital. Well documented problems with shortcuts for crc error checking. The problems don't show up in Windows, but Linux can stress the drive more causing the problems to come out. Lot's of people, including me, have run Linux on a WD drive without problem, but if you are buying new, I'd steer clear and go to Maxtor or Seagate.
If I were in your shoes, I'd get a high capacity drive and partition it so that you had about 6-8GB for the OS (that's all you need) with the balance split out into two partitions, one of which is 15GB (the size of your other drive) Then I would use the 15GB partition and the original drive to create a RAID 1 mirror for storing all of my "can't bear to lose if the drive fails" data. > This sound fine? Also, is there a list of supported > peripherals for 9.1 anywhere? I'd like to check my current > system setup (network card, router, video card, sound card) > etc.. to make sure they are supported. > Router should be no problem if it is configured through a browser interface. Here's some user notes from the Community TWiki http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility Also, since you're new around these parts, unset your reply-to in your mail client. If your from address is the same as your reply-to, there is no need to set it. It screws up list posting. When I hit reply, it goes to you instead of to the list. (Of course, if you have not ditched Windows yet and you are posting from OE, I don't think you can change this behavior because MS, as always, knows what is best for you) -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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