Re: [SLE] Believe this ?? OT

From: Chadley Wilson (chadley_at_pinteq.co.za)
Date: 10/14/04

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:37:14 +0200

    On Thursday 14 October 2004 14:19, Felix Miata wrote:
    > Bob S wrote:
    > > Might want to consider this for your next hard drive purchase.
    > > Tried to get a diagnostics program for a Western Digital hard drive that
    > > I suspect might be giving me problems. They ONLY have it for the windoz
    > > flavors. I don't believe it !!!
    >
    > I do. WD is the winmodem of ATA drives:
    > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12078
    >
    > Leendert Meyer wrote:
    > > I hope Western Digital does not go the same way as Asus.
    >
    > Too late. They did that about 12 years ago.
    > --
    > "[W]hoever finds me finds life....[A]ll who hate me love death."
    > Proverbs 8:35-6 NIV
    >
    > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
    >
    > Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

    Yes the first version of MDK10 had a habit of destrying WD hard drives, I'm
    not kidding. We had to swap out a entire production run of drives thanks to
    mandrake. I tested the new drives with Fedora 1 back in those days and it was
    fine and then reloaded mandrake and had to swap out some more drives.
    Turns out w had to change to maxtor.
    Just some useless info 

    -- 
Chadley Wilson
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