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Re: [PLUG] Dead, unrecoverable Hard drive?
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 12:55 am, Paul wrote:
> > If you do decide to save money and go IDE, stick to one of the top
> > three drive vendors mentioned above. Earlier this year, kernel
> > hacker Andre Hedrick, the maintainer of Linux's IDE driver, tracked
> > a user's problem to the fact that Western Digital drives don't do
> > error checking correctly. He posted to linux-kernel, ``WDC drives
> > blow off the CRC check of UDMA.... This is BAD and STUPID.''
> > Western Digital fired back on their web site with, ``If there's a
> > problem using these drives in Linux the problem most likely lies
> > with the software driver and not the hard drive itself.'' I'm going
> > to believe the kernel hacker over the hardware vendor, and stay
> > away from Western Digital drives.
>
> I read something like this before and have stayed away from WD
> drives. I would also avoid Quantum drives. I've been wanted to try
> IBM or Seagate drives, but the wife prefers Maxtor. I would also
> consider Samsung drives.
fwiw, I have 9 WD drives running that are more than 6 years old and
have been more or less constantly running. I used to have 10, but one
failed a couple of months ago. First to go. No problems whatsoever,
otherwise. Satisfies me.
When I realized that the one was ready to go, I popped a new drive in
and tried to copy (not dd) as much as I could. I was able to access
about 65% for copying, so it may be worth trying.
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