On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:02:17PM -0800, Jason Stradling wrote: > Western Digital 40GB ATA100(was master on Channel 1 > the first time, was slave on channel 1 when it died) > And an old 2GB Western Digital that was the slave on > channel 2 until it died in my first attempt.
Sometimes Western Digital drives don't mix well with other drives on the same cable; sometimes you can get round this by playing games of trial-and-error with their jumpers, but not always. Sometimes you get one WD drive that shares OK and another apparently identical one that doesn't. They tend to be better at sharing with other WD drives than with drives of a different make, but again not always. (This behaviour is a shame, because otherwise they're pretty solid drives.) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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