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/