John Aldrich wrote:
> As for Seagate...just FYI, my primary hard drive is a Seagate IDE
> (Actually a relabled Conner <G>) but it's only an 850 meg. The other
> hard drive in my system is a full-height 5.25" Seagate 9.5 Gig (8.5
> after formatting) SCSI drive. I assume your admonition against
> Seagate was for their IDE hard drives? :-)
> John
Yep, all the IDEs from old PIO mode 3s (relabeled Conner types included),
but only with certain chipsets and BIOSes and mostly with Mandrake where
the optimization done to the drivers outclasses them. And, of course, any
sort of mild overclocking, like running a Cyrix 686 at 75MHz bus speed on
an intel 430TX. The Seagate SCSI's appear to be made of sterner stuff.
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me, one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other with bearings
eating the spindle.
Quantum Bigfoot Drives--three KO from powering down unpredictably (the
drive, not the computer or the power source), one with logic card woes.
That was 4 out of 4, BTW. I should have mentioned them, but they are not
in the category of "problem for implementing linux" They are in the
category of "buying this qualifies you as *non compos mentis*" :-} (And I
bought 4 of them to pay for my education).
Civileme
