Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 16:43:46 -0600 CDT From: "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com> To: owner-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Nat Low <natlow@empnet.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a failing HD? Message-ID: <73A225F7C28@bldg1.croute.com>
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and the clouds parted, and on 2 Mar 97, Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au> said: I've long seen WD Caviar drives lose their minds under the influence of MS products after 6-12 months. Long ago I took a couple of 220MB IDEs and they made a fine mini-FreeBSD system (all the way back to 1.1.5 or something like that). I avoid WD like the plague now. Prefer SCSI, when budget permits. >> Funny. I had the exact opposite problem. I have a Western Digital 1.6 >> EIDE drive. When I didn't know any better and I was still running >> Micro$oft Lose95 the drive would start spinning and thrashing for no >> apparent reason. After I disinfected my HD of the nasty virus [Lose95] >> and dedicated the system to FBSD the problem went away. >> >> Burton Sampley >> >I believe the answer to this is that M$ Windows is not a virus - Viruses >to something. :-) > >Andrew Perry >andrew@shoal.net.au > >
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