On Saturday June 28 2003 10:20 pm, Brian Parish wrote:
> I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can
> anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue
> that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of
> threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back now - in
> which some people including Civileme talked about WD drives
> relying on W$ drivers to implement ECC and therefore being
> subject to corruption when used with linux.
>
> If this has been fixed, or was a hideous slur on WD, or whatever,
> it would be great to know. As it stands I am reluctant to use
> them, but maybe I'm missing out on a great product.
As I answered before, it's still an issue. For your own take
search recent lkml archives. I've seen various posts about WD's
lack of proper CRC checking in just the last week, even with the
latest kernels.
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