Excellent, I have a Western Digital 1.6 gb harddrive, the same one that their web page admits to having problems with....Gateway is sending me a new one, I only hope this one lasts until then......
(It does take some guts for WD to admit they messed up, and replace the drives.) Thanks for all the help--- Sam Message from A. M. Varon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 7 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > What do you think is causing this: > > > > May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache, > > LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA > > > > Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't > > that field that says LBA mean the drive is in LBA mode? > > > > Ofcourse, you can tell it's not since the cylinders are more that 1023. > > Not to mention I just went through switching from LBA to normal mode not > > to long ago because of file coruption I suspected was caused by the LBA > > mode. Which now may be something else all together. > > > > I've only had this drive about a year. I can't imagine it going tit's-up > > this fast. > > Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is > wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux > mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are. > many disgruntled linux users. you could check out www.wdc.com. > -- VA Research Linux Workstations Engineered like no other http://www.varesearch.com Sam Ockman - (415)934-3666, ext. 133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
