It's not about a decision to support, it is that WD drives often are not up to spec ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicolas Justin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 6:50 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel panic on boot > Mark Weaver wrote : > > I hate to tell you this, but you very well may have a hardware conflict > > on this particular machine. It's quite possibly your hard drive. There > > are some changes in the HCL between Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 that you may > > want to check on at the Mandrake site. I seem to remember some talk of > > this problem here on the list sometime back. If I remember correctly WD > > hdd's were the point of the discussion. > > -- > > Mark Weaver > > IT Dept./Reapernet.com > > Destiny Image Publishers > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I took a look at the expert list archive and found some problems with > the Western Digital HDD. > I installed mdk7.1 on another hard disk and there is no problem. > In the list archive I found a black list of "old" WD hdd not supported > by Linux, my HD isn't in the list but I think it have to be added. > I think there is some modifications, about hardrive handling, from > 2.2.14 to 2.2.15, or configurations changes between mdk7.0 and mdk7.1 ? > It's a strange decision to stop supporting 4-5 years old hardware ! > -- > ____________________________________________ > Nicolas Justin - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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