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Re: [SLE] Strange hard drive capacity 2048GB !?
- From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:29:26 -0400
- Message-id: <3F6F4D96.B8F@xxxxxx>
Jack Alderson wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2003 13:28, Felix Miata wrote:
> > They're the winmodem of hard drives, designed for M$ windoze. WD
> > provides M$ (and Sun) with drivers to do the work of the missing drive
> > hardware. Note that WD calls their drives "EIDE", while everyone else is
> > committed to the ATA standards.
> It wouldn't suprise me at all that they do that.
That WD does it has been admitted and documented. I just can't tell you
how and where, though it has been brought up repeatedly on at least one
of the Mandrake Linux mailing lists.
--
"...[B]e quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry...."
James 1:19 NIV
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
> On Monday 22 September 2003 13:28, Felix Miata wrote:
> > They're the winmodem of hard drives, designed for M$ windoze. WD
> > provides M$ (and Sun) with drivers to do the work of the missing drive
> > hardware. Note that WD calls their drives "EIDE", while everyone else is
> > committed to the ATA standards.
> It wouldn't suprise me at all that they do that.
That WD does it has been admitted and documented. I just can't tell you
how and where, though it has been brought up repeatedly on at least one
of the Mandrake Linux mailing lists.
--
"...[B]e quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry...."
James 1:19 NIV
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
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