Where to find a Western Digital HD WD800BD Caviar driver
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Where to find a Western Digital HD WD800BD Caviar driver
I just finished my first install of debian and I am now setting up another computer to network on that initial server.
I am having difficulty finding/installing the driver for the Western Digital WD800BD 80 GB harddrive driver...any help will be greatly appreciated.
Distribution: Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, Fedora, Red Hat, Puppy Linux
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All hard disk drivers are built into the operating system. There are no extra drivers to download for a hard disk. The disk needs to be partitioned, formatted and mounted for Linux to recognize it.
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