From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 3 14:44:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA03555 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 14:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from croute.com (ishm2.croute.com [199.97.106.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA03547; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 14:44:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from bldg1.croute.com by croute.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16638; Mon, 3 Mar 97 16:44:06 CST Received: from COMPUROUTE/SpoolDir by bldg1.croute.com (Mercury 1.21); 3 Mar 97 16:44:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from SpoolDir by COMPUROUTE (Mercury 1.30); 3 Mar 97 16:43:49 -0600 (CST) From: "Larry Dolinar" Organization: CompuRoute, Inc. To: owner-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 16:43:46 -0600 CDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Is this a failing HD? Cc: Nat Low , David Kelly , questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.40 Message-Id: <73A225F7C28@bldg1.croute.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk and the clouds parted, and on 2 Mar 97, Andrew Perry 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 > >