Chubby Vic wrote:
> Whoa, do you think I should move to IBM drives now?
>
> I hear that they are good but I did not know that about the
> Quantum ones!---Whoa.
>
You guys are killing me! Maybe I have just been lucky. I have run Conner,
Seagate, Maxtor, WD and IBM drives for the past ten years. The only drive I ever
had die was a Seagate 340 meg drive (I think lightning had something to do with
that) To its credit, it lived long enough after the strike to allow me to get the
data off of it, albeit slowly. The rest of the drives regardless of manufacturer
never gave me any problems. (noise level maybe) Yes, I no longer use a great deal
of the older drives, they sit on a shelf and I'm sure they would work flawlessly
if reinstalled, but there isn't much utility left in an 87 meg drive these days.
I have followed this thread out of curiousity and I have read the prior thread by
the infamous Civileme regarding the WD/Mator timing problems and I'm sure that
when all of the planets are alligned just right there is a sincere issue there. I
have several scavenged systems with 1.6g WD drives and 1.275g Maxtor drives in
them and I haven't had a problem -- Like I said, maybe I have just been lucky.
Anyway, aside from Avg. seek time and MTBF, I don't really differentiate between
brand names. Yes, all things being equal, I prefer the IBM drives. But whether
that has to do with actual harware quality or a skillfully designed ad campain, I
can't tell you.
I think the real issue for Mandrake is whether there is a difference in how 8.0
treats (or sees) the drives from different manufacturers on install. Whether
there is an actual difference in the way the drive firmware is responding. (I
know nothing about this except from the threads discussing swapping drives to get
8.0 to install) I can't really see any logical reason the OS should care or be
finiky about one drive or the other. I'll leave this issue for the powers that be
who know far more than I to determine.
There are always two sides to a story. With regard to this issue, this is mine.
--
David Rankin
Nacogdoches, Texas
