From: stenger@zeus.uni-duisburg.de (Joerg Stenger) Subject: Re: Maxtor drives... Date: 28 Jul 1993 13:45:42 GMT
In article 6dEd037Xd7qo00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com, ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) writes:
>mattm@cs.su.oz.au (Matthew Ewin Maguire) writes:
>>I have been offered a good deal on a 345MB Maxtor hard disk, which I would
>>like to add to my Linux box. However, I remember hearing about people who
>>have had compatibility problems with Maxtor drives.
>[...]
>In my experience (and several of my friends' experiences) your only likely
>problem with this setup will be your Seagate drive. They tend only to work
>with other Seagates as far as we've seen.
I had a 105MB Segate and added a 210MB Maxtor. First it didn't work, I couldn't
do a "warmstart" but since I configured the Segate as master and Maxtore as slave
I haven't got any problems. Probably the Segate always wants to be the master.
Joerg
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