On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:06:05AM -0500, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Operating Systems Supported > WARNING! > Using an operating system not listed below could result in data loss. > > followed by a list of Windows and Macintosh operating systems. > > If I had known this I would never have purchased the Western Digital > drive and, needless to say, I will never purchase another. I proceeded > to format it with ext2 partitions using my Debian CD's and have not > noticed any problems. Why would they say such a thing? All I can remember that some old win$ os-es (fe win$98) switched off too soon either the machine or the disk that it could not really write out data from it's (big) cache. Also, they may refer to the SMART capability of the drive, meaning one os which can not monitor it, may not warn you in time that the disk is going to be fault. No other idea beyond those.
> What should I > buy next time? I have a lot of different IDE and SCSI dics under Linux: Quantum, Western Digital, Fujitsu, Seagate, IBM, Compay, you name it. Never had any problems with them... Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
