Take a look through the archives of the Newbie and Expert lists. There are plenty of messages detailing how bad WD drives are. In short: they don't follow the ATA spec properly, they are missing some vital CRC circuitry and they don't officially support GNU/Linux (only Windows and Solaris).
Seagate is probably the only decent HDD manufacturer today. Maxtor aren't bad either, provided you get a drive with a 3-year (not 1-year) warranty. On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:43:28 +0100, "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > June-Jerry Kreps wrote: > On Tuesday 01 October 2002 05:51 am, J. Grant wrote: > > Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux > then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from them. > > JG > > > I have two WD drives, 30 GB each, and they work great. > JLK > > luckily for me my WD drive was ranked 2nd in this review. Realy you need > a huge test set to get consistent results though > > http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1540/ > > JG -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
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