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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: magic of western digital disks ... ?
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FWIW, I was talking to a PC hardware dealer recently and he now reluctantly
uses WD drives as they use "EIDE" which is a hybrid of the ATA protocol
and apparently don't work with some MB's and others such as Seagate/Maxtor
make drives that do ATA rather than "EIDE".

I'm not sure exactly what EIDE is in relation to each...