I am not sold on any one particular drive being a problem for Linux, which is why I was interested in hearing from Ricardo, however...
The one drive manufacturer I use to have the most trouble with, in any O/S, was Conner. The way they set them up was to provide the O/S with set of parameters that were a translation from the actual paramters of the drive. In the 'stupid' days of opeating systems, this was fine and actually needed to help them get over the 1024 cylinders hump. Once the O/S became inquisitive and smarter, I found that the Conner drives caused confusion in the O/S and some utilities that were able to dig that deep. A number of years ago, Seagate swallowed up the failing Conner company, and unfortunately, decided to continue production of Conner technology under the Seagate name. If you look at the specs on some of the drive since the buy out, you will see the Conner technology has encroached in the specs of many of their drives since. Since this time, I have felt that Seagate doesn't give me the warm fuzzies anymore. I would prefer to go after a WD drive, even though I know that every drive manufacturer has had its share of 'problems' with production, QC and drive designs, and WD has had its share. Drives are more reliable now than ever, but are still prone to failure. Even on a new drive in Linux, I always take extra time to check for bad blocks when time permits. As for Quantum Big Foots....I am not interested in 'going there', here. ;-) Anyway, that was my interest in this. In retrospect, I should have put 'OT' on my reply to Ricardo. :-) As for the hdparms setting you suggested, I am not ashamed to admit that without checking the man pages, I haven't a clue as to what they mean or why you have imposed them over the deafult settings. I am still very new to the very hands-on control of Linux with hardware, not having had to do this since the days of MS/PC-DOS. It's really exciting to have so much control, but also aggrevating to someone use to getting what he needs done immediately because of time and experience with an O/S. I don't have that in Linux as yet. That's why I love being here. :-) Would you mind telling my why you feel it beneficial to over-ride the defaults? TIA T :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 & ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 22:33, Technoslick wrote: > Ricardo, > > Thanks for that 'interesting' tip on Seagate. Did you read this somewhere, > or were told by 'word-of-mouth' that there was a problem between these > drives and Linux? If the former, can you point to the source? I would like > to learn more about this. Occasionally, I pick up a Seagate drive for use in > one of my systems or that of a client's. With no disrespect intended, I > would never have bought a Quanta Big Foot drive if my life depended on it. > My luck with them has not been very good, and the large form factor is both > passe' and unnecessary impossing in today's boxes. But, if it's working for > you, that's great. > > I really would like to know what you have found out. Thanks! > > T :-) Do you really reckon it's something to do with the drive, or the hdparms settings for that particular drive? (I force mine with hdparm -X68 -d1 -b /dev/hda - or similar - and get better sound results by tweaking them manually - then setting up a script or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file....or the /etc/sysconfig/haddisks file - same diff...) -- Thu Nov 14 22:45:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by men who are equally certain that they represent the divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other is mistaken in the belief, and perhaps in some respects, both. I hope it will not be irreverent of me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me. - Abraham Lincoln ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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