I have to agree here.
We have ~70-75 Gateway machines in our office with
WD drives.
I/we have replaced 11 of them in the last 45 days.
Guess what, the 3 year warranty is up in August!
Anyway, I run Maxtors here at home with absolutely no trouble
at all. (Except that W95 can't handle the 4.3s')
You haven't had the "Full Body Shudder"(tm) until you hear the
"clank,clank,clank,etc..." a WD drive makes when it goes to find
the never,never land....
(I can recognize a dying WD in the dark)
Rick
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I was just wondering if linux has general problems handling large drives.
> >> I have a maxtor 8.3GB drive and I keep getting seek timeout errors and my
> > ^^^^^^
> >
> >I think I found the problem.. I personally have had nothing but bad
> >luck with Maxtor... take it back and spend the extra money for Western
> >Digital or IBM.
> >-- Keith Schoenefeld
>
> Sorry, but I am running four Maxtor drives, all without a hitch. Before
> I got the latest Maxtor, I also had purchased a Western Digital and it was
> only up a few weeks before it crashed, and it crashed good. I shut down
> the Linux box to make a trip and when I got back, I turned on the system,
> only to have the drive crash real hard within hours.
>
> Your mileage obviously varied.
>
> MB
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