Maxtor or WD?

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 06:23 +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I bought a Maxtor 160GB 8MB cache IDE hard drive that Fedora Core 5 
> > would not install to. I've replaced it with an identical Western 
> > Digital unit, and it's installing now. What would cause this
> 
> I've had Maxtor drives before that were fine, in fact I don't think I've
> ever had a bad one, but I don't think that generally they are up to the
> quality of WD. IIRC they do run quite hot, so if you don't have adequate
> case cooling there might be a problem.
> 
> Sometimes, however, the problem lies with the very strange ways that
> Windows handles hard drives geometries (or not, as may be the case).

I think Linux also has a problem recognizing drives set to cable select
instead of the Master / Slave pin settings. I have had problems with
that in the past. Ric