Re: Possible drive incompatibilites?

[Sarah J Straith <sarahj earthling net>]

Kevin Colby wrote:
> 
> Sarah J Straith wrote:
> >
> > Are there any know incompatibilites between Linux
> > and a Quantum Bigfoot multigig harddrive?
> 
> Not to my knowledge.  I know their Atlas 10K drives are
> VERY nice.
> 
> > The first drive was a Maxtor 8xx meg (I don't remember
> > the exact size for this one.)
> 
> Not to badmouth Maxtor, but we have had many of their
> drives die.

The Maxtor is working just fine.  We, at first, thought that
the Bigfoot (or Linux) had a problem with larger drive being 
below the Maxtor in the cascade.

> Now, if your system seems to kill drives reliably,
> I would be concerned.  What do you mean by dying?
> Any particular time or known cause?

As I said in my previous post, the system bios no longer
sees
drive.

We tried:

Taking the Maxtor completely out of the cascade.  No help
Switch the connectors from the controller card
  in case it was a bad connection                 No help

With either cable used, the system sees the Maxtor and NOT 
the Quantum. <sigh>

I was able to do the initial bios configure of the drive,
start the install and got as far as the previously discussed
install problem (yes I do now have the updated disks).  From
that point on, the drive has not worked.

Anything more than this regarding the hardware end will have
to wait until I get home and can ask the house hardware 
techie <G>.

Again, folks, thanks for your help.

	Sarah J