On Monday 16 December 2002 8:36 pm, Lorne wrote: > On Monday 16 December 2002 10:47 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Monday December 16 2002 06:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the > > > archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete > > > explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the > > > way WD has chosen to not follow DMA standards. Linux does rather > > > strict checking and WD doesn't so WD drives can be problematic. > > > > > > James > > > > Civileme reported that WD's no longer supported CRC checking other > > that in Windoze. I believe he pronounced them as Win-harddrives. > > > > As an old timey overclocker, we clockers learned to quit usin > > Western Digital HDD's circa summer 1998. Before that they had a > > reputation for 'takes a lickin, keeps on tickin' among oc'rs. The > > issue remains the same, WD's went from being some of the best on an > > off-spec PCI bus (33.3mhz) ... to the worst. > > > > Civileme, as I relate to his past reports, said it was due to CRC > > short cuts. To save a few $$'s, WD transfered this from firmware to > > software. He also reported that WD's response to him was that their > > drives were not supported under Linux, only Winsux and Solaris by NDA > > and licensing agreements. > > What a crock! I guess you get what you pay for eh? I thought 180GB's for > $179.00 was too good to be true. Well I guess I'll through it on my XP box > and take a real drive and put in my linux box. Guess I've learned a lesson.
What do you consider a "real drive"? -- Jonathan Dlouhy Monday, December 16, 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------- It's as bad as you think and they are out to get you ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9
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