Re: Possible drive incompatibilites? --clarification

[Sarah J Straith <sarahj earthling net>]

Sarah J Straith wrote:
> 
> 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.

<moan>I HATE Mondays</moan>  The REST of that paragraph
should have read.

But it doesn't appear to matter where in the cascade the
Maxtor
sits.
 
> > 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
> 
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