Re: 2.Harddisk???????

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From: wweber
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:00

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In <87wwdcj3hn.fsf@longship.awf.com>, Arne W Flones <flonesaw@longship.awf.com> writes:
>Matthias Weiss <e9217801@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>Yes, you may want to be wary of Western Digital IDE hard drives.  They
>are great drives.  But, some of them seem to have some problems when
>connected to an IDE port with another manufacturer's drive.
>
>I have fought this battle and it ain't a pretty sight.  The best thing
>is if you have a WD hard drive to put the non-WD hard drive on the
>other IDE port.  This caution applies equally to CD-ROM drives.  My
>IDE CD-ROM will not work when connected on the same port as my WD
>hard drive.
>-- 
When I made my Linux box I put an old WD 340Meg and a Mitsumi CDROM drive
on the IDE card and the results were that Caldera OpenLinux Lite installed
by RedHat would not recognize its CD when I tried to install it for a
replacement. Could this be the WD drive causing that?

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Subject: Re: 2.Harddisk???????
Date: 1998/04/03
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