Let's just say that I'm ever so -slightly- cognizant of the entire
communication mechanism...
The assertion of Windows dependence is a crock.
You are also misquoting Civileme's statements. He correctly indicated that
the original problems were primarily due to chatter resulting from IDE to
IDE BUS master transfers in that the drives were not responding quickly
enough, nor immune to resulting "noise".
This in turn primarily surfaced on VIA Apollo (and other VIA) chipsets which
had problems with bus contention... VIA is still working on this problem...
nor was it specific to WD drives, it merely manifested with the WD drives
more regularly when they were mixed with other brands.
This was not a Windows/Linux issue at all. You are asserting that somehow
the drives depend upon Windows for proper functioning. They do not.
The Win-drives statement is "a hoot".
It's hearsay assertions like this that tend to get all sorts of rumors
started.
-JMS
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:37 AM
Cc: Expert List
Subject: RE: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software
Installeris first on that list)
well...so as to avoid starting a HUGE long thread in a totally
non-productive discussion let me politely suggest a little research into
how OS's access and communicate with hardware and "why" and "what" WD
drive makers did to make manufacturing their drives cheaper. for the most
part its usually the faster drives that have the problem. those drives
that spin above 5400rpms.
You might also address your question to Civileme who has a very in-depth
understanding of whats being discussed here.
a word of caution her though...don't just blow it off out of hand cause
you may just wind up with egg on yer face. ;)
--
Mark
*****
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at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>
> 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-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:33 PM
> Cc: Expert List
> 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.
>
>
