Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxx>]

So far so good with my WD and that on the recommendation of the LUG.
I have avoided the IBM/hitachi 7200 series on the same recommendation.

Perhaps its just a WD SCSI problem my drives are IDE and not a problem.

CWSIV

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:28:21 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> writes:
>Jack Alderson wrote:
> 
>> My personal experience with Western Digital HDs is that they are 
>unreliable
>> and prone to configuration problems. I consider them, at best, a 
>hobbiest HD.
> 
>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.
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