I have installed Mandrake on several hard drives from Maxtor, Seagate and
Quantum, and only the Seagate ones gave me an erros during installation. The
mobo chipset was a VX-Pro.
El lun, 04 oct 1999, escribiste:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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> On 10/4/99, 8:20:52 PM, Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
> Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware:
>
>
> [snip]
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> > 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
>
> Time for me to start reading the mag's again - I thought Maxtors were
> ok . . .
