I'm interested as to where you obtained this interesting tidbit of
information...
Not only does this make no sense, but DirectX has no relation to hard drives
at all.
There were some issues vis-a-vis WD drives and bus speeds when the host
controller was talking to the IDE at too high a rate, but this was cleared
up long ago.
Sounds like someone is quoting heresay....
Win-Drives... yuk, yuk.
Linux has no problem with WD drives as long as the hardware itself is not to
blame...
I.E. bus chatter, IDE/PCI noise, etc... (as with the VIA chipsets...)
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software
Installeris first on that list)
Um...I don't know how to say this gently, but WD drives and linux often
don't get along very well. For the most part WD drives are "win-drives".
what that means is that they were designed in such a way that would allow
them to be made at lower costs for an OS that doesn't talk directly to the
hardware. Which is why windows uses DirectX. Linux, on the other hand
speaks directly to the hardware all the time. Therein lies the problem a
lot of the time between Linux and WesternDigital HDD's.
