Re: WD Hard Drives

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:14:40 -0500
Julian Opificius <julianop mninter net> wrote:

> I've been following a thread on the Mandrake newbie list about hard
> drives, and "learned" that my Western Digital HDs are about as welcome
> in the Linux world as a hole in the head.
> 
> I haven't had any problems with my RH7.2 installations to date, even
> after I added a WD 80Gig drive on one of them. Am I living on borrowed
> time? Can anyone speak from experience on the issue?

Hmmm. I've been using WD for quite some time and have had zero problems.
I still have a drive I bought back when I started using winders 95. I
have a couple of newer ones, too.

Sure, I had a problem with a large one needing a 30 second predelay or
the thing wouldn't get recognized by the machine. But that was a screwy
BIOS, not the drive. The drive worked fine in a machine that the maker
kept the BIOS up to date.

I haven't had one fail. I guess if my 7-year-old one ever fails I could
join the WD-haters club. But I like Maxtor, too. And I've had more
trouble with those than WD.

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