Adrian Smith wrote:
> 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
Hi Adrian,
I'm going for Maxtor. At least on the older Dell.
Thanks for responding.
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
