X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <006c01c096cb$ef103c40$73822a40@dbcooper> From: "Patrick Moran" To: References: <3A850A91 DOT 1EE9FC2D AT compuserve DOT de> <3A8986D2 DOT C4734A7A AT compuserve DOT de> <006201c09619$435274c0$4d822a40 AT dbcooper> <001d01c09655$d9415d20$23b3abd4 AT qagiorgi> Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:31:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com ----- Original Message ----- From: "White Dragon" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:15 AM Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX > > Another example WD with their Caviar drives, used their own methods for > > high speed which was not compatible with other manufactures drives, so > > you might have problems getting various manufacures drives to work > > together. > > That's true, i can't even boot my system with another drive installed (the > "another drive" was a quantum fireball 3.2gb udma33)... I should have bought > an IBM... > Now you have really hit a sore spot with me. I will not ever intentionally get or sell a Quantum drive to anyone. I will never trust that company. I'll tell you why: Several (many?) years ago, Quantum was advertising their drives pretty heavily in computer magazines such as Computer Shopper. I would buy these magazines every month and of course I would see ads in them. I would look at the specs for all the drives that were advertised. Within a few short months Quantum drives took a quantum leap in their specs for the same model number drives. Like their MTBF went from 30,000 hours to a whopping 140,000 hours. Their access time dropped from 13-19ms to a whopping 9ms (that is 9ms for ALL drives even though the specs had originally ranged from 13ns to 18ms.) No one can ever tell me the technology changed that fast. They were the ones that first started cheating on their specs. They were using the on board drive buffer to figure their access time and they did not include the head settle time and they used some new way of determining MTBF that showed their drives to be the best. After that every other manufacture had to start using these inflated specs so that their drives would show to be as good as Quantums, and they were all better except for el cheapo crap like Conner and some other pieces of junk I can no longer remeber their brand name. In fact I don't believe the original specs on the Quantums were any better than cheap Conner drives until they started inflating their specs. They also came up with other crap like their so-called "AIR LOCK" which they claimed only they had. Most other manufactures had the same cpapbility only they did not give it some stupid name for parking the heads automatically!!!!! That alone was enough to tick me off and not ever want to buy one of their drives because they lie through their teeth. I really hit the fan when they started using a 900 number for customer support!!!!! You had to pay them money to get help to install their drives or format them or whatever other help you might need. Everyone else had toll free numbers and free tech support. The best place for that Quantum drive is the nearest garbage can. When I worked for gateway Customer Support, we had more failures from Quantum drives than any other brands and Gateway sold less of those drives than any other brand. I classify Quantum with Conner junk and would give Conner the edge because they were honest and did not charge for customer support. Now that I got that out of my system. You should stick to one brand of hard drives with IDE. There are drives that are fully compatible with one another, but you need to do research on them to find which ones are and are not and also which models. If you like WD drives (which are good drives) then make them all WD. If you like Seagate, then stick with Seagate drives. If you like IBM drives then stick with them. I have even written to drive manufactures and asked them if such and such drive from another manufacture will be fully compatible and even they cannot answer that question. Pat _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com