As an aside to this discussion I seem to remember reading in a Linux magazine recently that hardware developers of HDDs prefer to do the designing with with open source OSs because they know exactly what going on with the software, consequently there are Linux drivers available before they are available for Windows OSs.
Regards Llywelyn Owen -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
