On Monday 16 December 2002 02:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:36 am, Lorne wrote: > > On Monday 16 December 2002 10:47 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > 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 $179.00 was too good to be true. Well I guess I'll > > through it on my XP box and take a real drive and put in my linux > > box. Guess I've learned a lesson. > > It'll only last moments ;) The whole hardware deal (PC's) is > gettin to be a joke. One the big iron guys have always joked about. > Desktop hardware was an increasingly progressive target a few years > ago. Was startin to look real good. Lately, despite M$'s problems, > and the DoJ (even EU) perception that Billy's major crime was knee'n > NutScrape in the ba__.... well... he's prevailin anyhow. He's > killed a lot of hardware, other than if you want to use it with his > software. > > In my perception it's been M$'s influence on hardware that's their > _real_crime_. More'n more of it is becomin software dependant.... > win-modems, win-harddrives, win-sound, win-printers, win-video, etc., > even lately, win-motherboards. Linux users gravitating towards an > acceptance of any hardware that needs proprietary closed source > drivers to work, or work fully ... are sheep being led to slaughter. > Even when it's called lin-hardware, or at least made somewhat usable > (eg, lin-nvidia). They're just vendor captive users, and add to the > ultimate problem. > > BTW, I gave $120 for a 80g Maxtor recently. Several years ago an > admission of buyin a Maxtor on an oc'rs group would have brought > deserved ridicule an laughs ... lately I can't find anything better. > It's gettin harder. Billy has lost a few battles lately, taken a draw > in others, but he's winning the war when he controls hardware. Mostly > not his own efforts, but due to user acceptance, apathy, and > ignorance. Ignorance of the fact that if it needs proprietary closed > software, when it shouldn't, to fully function, > ... it's fake-hardware. Acceptance and apathy follow hand'n hand.
Well.. a guy used to be able to get SCSI hd's for about 10 to 20% more than IDE. Anymore THAT has gone bezerk! I REALLY would like to stick with SCSI, but just to get a 16gb drive is costing as much as the 180gb drives! What is going on with that? they are cheaper to build than IDE for crying out loud.
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