Maxtor drive

[Joel Hammer]

This sort of problem is typical of linux. Anyone who thinks linux is ready
for the GENERAL desktop user is forgetting the hassle of installing it and
keeping it going.

Every time the technology is updated (made cheaper, frequently, like
winmodems) linux is in catch up mode. Always has and always will be in
the mass market. MS is the mass market. Just think about that army of
professional driver writers, essentially  working for MS for free, so
people will buy their company's hardware and keep their paychecks coming.
Just think about printers. I am so lucky to have an inkjet printer which
came with linux support (lexmarkz53).  However, I don't anticipate that
future versions of lexmark printers will bother with supporting linux. It
sometimes is advantageous to be in the herd.

Maybe your sister should have gotten Lindows? At least she would have
certainty of hardware compatibility.

I would have tried a different version of linux, not changed the HD.
You could have just mailed her an installation CD for something else and let
her try that.

BTW, every harddrive I currently use (about 7) is maxtor.  They all work
with linux.

Joel

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:14:38AM -0400, dep wrote:
> 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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