Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > What's your opinion of IBM Hard Drives? I was going to continue buying > them since IBM is a supporter of Linux. However, some of the customer > feedbacks I've been reading makes me apprehensive about touching these.
Jeez I seem to be the only one with a dislike for them (on this list anyway). Yes, I too have heard of quite a few major disasters. One person recently had his replaced a third time in 6 weeks and it still died and man, was he pissed off! I've had a 60GB Deskstar (IBM-DTLA-307060) for approx 18 months and I hate it. My BIOS (new mobo at the time) does not recognise the full capacity which is an IBM-known problem so I have to use their Dynamic Drive Overlay. I was told that linux can solve that problem and to remove the DDO and set the BIOS hd parameters to those which hdparm gave. But it didn't work and I had to reinstall the DDO. I had also tried all the various jumper settings and CHS settings I could find in the manual (including those that were supposed to fix this problem) to no avail. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, I dunno. Its also rather noisy. I also have a 60GB Seagate Barracuda IV which has never caused a problem and sh*t it soooo quiet. Just my JMNSHO. Sharrea -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works
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