On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 06:23 +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I bought a Maxtor 160GB 8MB cache IDE hard drive that Fedora Core 5 > > would not install to. I've replaced it with an identical Western > > Digital unit, and it's installing now. What would cause this > > I've had Maxtor drives before that were fine, in fact I don't think I've > ever had a bad one, but I don't think that generally they are up to the > quality of WD. IIRC they do run quite hot, so if you don't have adequate > case cooling there might be a problem. > > Sometimes, however, the problem lies with the very strange ways that > Windows handles hard drives geometries (or not, as may be the case). I think Linux also has a problem recognizing drives set to cable select instead of the Master / Slave pin settings. I have had problems with that in the past. Ric
