Hi Roman. i can only offer an opinion on your first question -- assuming i understand you correctly. do you mean most perferable as in manufactuer? i have used maxtor, sea gate and western digital drives over the time i have been working in electronics and can't honestly say i have seen much difference. i have only seen 2 hard drives actually crash & burn in my life. but, for my computer at home, i only buy maxtor. i have been thru 6 maxtor hard drives. one of them, a 540M (yes M) from the old days finally crashed & burned. it started to lose data randomly. i saw the writing on the wall & replaced it. i have -- maxtor flavor -- two 170M and one 250M -- all older than the 540M and all still work just fine. currently i'm using a 16G and 30G maxtor in my system. i also recomend maxtor to all my friends. and i don't recomend many products. but as i say, just my opinion. i have no science or statistics to back any of this up. =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5:24:02 PM 11/1/00 >>> Hi everybody, I have three questions for every one: Q1. What would be the most preferable hard drive to install in your computer or does it matter? Q2. I tried to install mdk7.1 and the IDE configuration froze. However, when I tried to install Redhat 6.1, it started to install but it did indicated that the partition table on hdd may be corrupt. I have Windows 98SE installed on the Fujitsu drive on the first partition. I used Partition Magic to create a separate partition yet it still freezes. I am also using an Iomega zip drive 100MB. Should I disconnect it? Q3. Should I only format the Fujitsu drive using MSDOS and install Linux only? Some of my applications will not run on Linux. I'm out of ideas. Any thoughts? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
