Maxtor drive

[dep]

begin  Keith Antoine's  quote:

| I gues its horses for courses, but I have had nothing BUT problems
| with Maxtor. I will not eve go near one with a long sticky pole. I
| have had problems with Maxtors and Ghost and it was not ghosts
| fault, I also have hasd problems with one of the best, in my
| estimation, partion software Acronis 5, which has had no problems
| ever with seagates, ibms, WDs and old drives.

an update on my sister's system. she took the maxtor back and got a 
western digital. and again the suse 8.0 install halted at the point 
where it was probing the hard drive. there followed lots of checking 
-- dos's fdisk saw and identified the drive, and worked, after which 
she deleted the partitions it had made -- and all her hardware is 
listed as working with linux. there were various things suggested all 
over the place, but most were not practical, in that she had no other 
working machine there.

she having blown a rare day off on this, she got a little angry with 
me for having suggested linux.

yesterday, she put windows on it, and everything works fine. and so 
now i will get phone calls from her whenever the thing gets infected. 
but the "too bad you're not running linux" response will no longer be 
available.
-- 
dep

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