Ok, I'll add my U.S. $.02 to the brouhaha about WD disk drives:
Up until 2 years ago, I didn't care really one way or the other -
just went for best price. I still tend to lean toward best
price (I recently (about 2 months ago) bought a 40G Quantum
for $120 after rebate!), however abt 2 years a
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> Todd Lyons
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>
> "Jose M. San
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On Wednesday 25 April 2001 06:40 pm, email wrote:
> > Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> > Maxtor (in my opinion).
>
> Why do you say that. I've hd nothing but good luck with Maxtor hardrives.
> I currently have a ten, 2 twenties, and 1 thirty at home that are running
> just
I personally prefer Quantum hard drives, although I have not had
any maxtors or WD, I know about IBM and Quantums being
good linux drives.
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 11:11 pm, so spoke Dan Swartzendruber:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mark Weaver wrote:
> > Todd...
> >
> > What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats
ith WD drives as long as the hardware itself is not
to
> blame...
> I.E. bus chatter, IDE/PCI noise, etc... (as with the VIA chipsets...)
>
> -JMS
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> Sent: Tuesday, Ap
> Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> Maxtor (in my opinion).
Why do you say that. I've hd nothing but good luck with Maxtor hardrives.
I currently have a ten, 2 twenties, and 1 thirty at home that are running
just fine. Then at work we use Maxtor drives in our test machin
At 11:49 AM 4/25/2001 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
>On Wed Apr 25, 2001 at 01:21:52PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> > Vincent, any update on the kernel source build issue I raised over the
> weekend?
>
>Not yet. I'm waiting for someone to get back to me on this issue, but
>I have a few oth
On Wed Apr 25, 2001 at 01:21:52PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> Vincent, any update on the kernel source build issue I raised over the weekend?
Not yet. I'm waiting for someone to get back to me on this issue, but
I have a few other updates occupying my time at the moment so it may
take a
On Tue Apr 24, 2001 at 10:35:38PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Todd...
>
> What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats what I'm running now. in fact, that's all
> I've ever run with Linux. I've got two of them in my Mandrake 7.2 box here
> at home. 13GB and 3.5GB. this things runs for months at a time withou
Okay, I firmly disagree that the IBM 75GXP are slower
than Maxtors drives.
But whatever. Sorry, this is irrelevant to the list.
--- Wood Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor.
> Especially
> > Maxtor (in
Vincent, any update on the kernel source build issue I raised over the weekend?
s chatter, IDE/PCI noise, etc... (as with the VIA chipsets...)
>
> -JMS
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:33 PM
> Cc: Expert List
> Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 fi
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:33 PM
Cc: Expert List
Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software
Installeris first on that list)
Um...I don't know how to say this gently, but WD drives and l
Um...I don't know how to say this gently, but WD drives and linux often
don't get along very well. For the most part WD drives are "win-drives".
what that means is that they were designed in such a way that would allow
them to be made at lower costs for an OS that doesn't talk directly to the
hard
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Todd...
>
> What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats what I'm running now. in fact, that's all
> I've ever run with Linux. I've got two of them in my Mandrake 7.2 box here
> at home. 13GB and 3.5GB. this things runs for months at a time without any
> hiccups. I've
--- Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> Maxtor (in my opinion).
--- Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> Maxtor (in my opinion).
My experience differs...
I've had about
Todd...
What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats what I'm running now. in fact, that's all
I've ever run with Linux. I've got two of them in my Mandrake 7.2 box here
at home. 13GB and 3.5GB. this things runs for months at a time without any
hiccups. I've got another machine that's an older Dell with a Qua
Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
Maxtor (in my opinion).
--- Charles Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Chuck,
> >
> > Point well taken. ;-) you aren't by any chance
> using Western Digital hard
> > drives in your machine are you?
> >
>
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Chuck,
>
> Point well taken. ;-) you aren't by any chance using Western Digital hard
> drives in your machine are you?
>
Ack.. As a matter of fact I am
I have two caviar drives, a 307AA (30.7 gig) and 136AA(13.6gig)
Is that a problem? I don't remember seeing anything
Chuck,
Point well taken. ;-) you aren't by any chance using Western Digital hard
drives in your machine are you?
--
Mark
*
"what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years
at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast
emotional onslaught of my children. You never fin
I believe I have a handle on the problem now. I did a complete fresh and
minimal install, without using anything from the second CD except for
kernel source. I then went about recompiling programs and they worked!
infact, I did not have to use kgcc as before and the previously compiled
versions wo
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