Not to mention that I heard there DMA is not the greatest, that is what I heard. I have none that lasted over a year before going bad. Just my own experiences...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:02 AM Subject: Re: WD Hard Drives > > > I have had many problem with WD HardDrives in Linux and on NT. Problems > range form defective drives, clicking drives, corrupted inodes, data lose, > and boot problems where the bios stop recognizing the drive. In all these > case a new drive solved the problem. Furthermore, their warranty sucks! > They require you run a program to check the drive and send them the output > before they even think about making it good. If the BIOS will not > recongize the drive and replacing the drive fixes the problem then the > drive is definately bad. WD could not understand this. I've got 3 WD > drives here out of different systems. They are from 2 months to 3 years > old and all defective. > > > jay > > > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Julian Opificius wrote: > > > I've been following a thread on the Mandrake newbie list about hard drives, > > and "learned" that my Western Digital HDs are about as welcome in the Linux > > world as a hole in the head. > > > > I haven't had any problems with my RH7.2 installations to date, even after > > I added a WD 80Gig drive on one of them. Am I living on borrowed time? > > Can anyone speak from experience on the issue? > > > > ======================================== > > There was a composer name Liszt > > Whose music no one could resiszt > > When he swept the keyboard > > No one could be bored > > And now that he's gone, he is miszt. > > > > or ... > > > > A tutor who tooted the flute > > Tried to tutor two tooters to toot. > > Said the two to the tutor, > > "Is it harder to toot, or > > To tutor two tooters to toot?" > > > > Julian & Deb Opificius > > 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330 > > 763.441.1291. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > blahblahblah > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
