At 06:20 AM 7/10/02, you wrote: >Western Digital drives are by far the worst you can get. Officially, the >company >only supports Windows and Solaris, so if you choose any other OS (like >GNU/Linux) you're on your own. WD drives lack some vital CRC circuitry, >and they >don't comply fully with the ATA spec. If you use such a drive at anything >faster >than ATA/66 (IIRC) in GNU/Linux, expect massive filesystem corruption.
Well, I guess I didn't know that. Maybe now I do, my drives will start to fail :-( Thanks for the heads-up, though :-) j. ===========
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