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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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