[SOLVED] Western Digital Hard Drives and Linux issues

evodawg · 07-23-2010, 04:12 PM

Wanting to upgrade my old Maxtor Hard Dive that is beginning to fail. I was looking at the Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Model #:WD5001AALS But I have heard about compatible issues with WD Hard Drives and just wanted to know if this hard drive is working with Mandriva 2010.1 ???
2.6.33.5-desktop586-2mnb

Thanks for any advice....
Rich

pljvaldez · 07-23-2010, 04:15 PM

According to reviews on Newegg, it works fine.

evodawg · 07-23-2010, 04:19 PM

Thats where I'm planning on buying it from... Where did you see or read that review. Ive read reviews but nothing on whether it worked on a linux box

pljvaldez · 07-23-2010, 04:21 PM

Just click on the read all reviews link and then in the search field type "linux".

evodawg · 07-23-2010, 04:29 PM

Thanks for the quick replies, appreciated it

Tux Rules · 07-24-2010, 05:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evodawg

Wanting to upgrade my old Maxtor Hard Dive that is beginning to fail. I was looking at the Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Model #:WD5001AALS But I have heard about compatible issues with WD Hard Drives and just wanted to know if this hard drive is working with Mandriva 2010.1 ???
2.6.33.5-desktop586-2mnb

Thanks for any advice....
Rich

I have a WD Caviar HDD with the characteristics you've just posted and I had installed on my computer Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora and now Debian. I don't see the reason why it should not work with any of these Linux OS.