Possible drive incompatibilites?

[Sarah J Straith <sarahj earthling net>]

As some of you know (thank you those who have tried to help)
I have been trying to get to systems up in Linux.  I have
had
to put the laptop on hold temporarily, but the main box
**has**
to be functional within the next two weeks.  <sigh>Roommates
as
business partners. </sigh>

My question is this.  Are there any know incompatibilites 
between Linux and a Quantum Bigfoot multigig harddrive?  I
have 
just had the second in a row go bellyup on me.  The bios
doesn't
even see it anymore.  <fx=head scratched in confusion>

For the record.

In the eventual network server box, we started with one
drive
and then added the headache^H^H^H^H^H^H^H second drive.

The first drive was a Maxtor 8xx meg (I don't remember the 
exact size for this one.)

The second drive was the Quantum Bigfoot 3.2gig drive.

When the first Quantum died I returned it and got a 
duplicate of the drive as a replacement.  As I have said,
now
this one has died.

Any ideas folks?  All I can figure is that it is either an
incompat with Linux or the Maxtor that killed both drives.
That or the Quantum Bigfoots are undependable drives.

TIA

	sjs