I've got both Maxtor and Western Digital 5400RPM drives and haven't had a problem with either. I use IBM drives at work and they're fine too. Jan On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 16:00, John Anderson wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 23:08, Jan Depner wrote: > > Aha! I knew I remembered something about Adaptec and the envy24 > > chipset. Check this out: > > > > http://www.staudio.de/kb/english/conflicts/index.html > > AaaAAAaaaAaArgh! > > <mutter mutter>"Reputable" brand names<mutter mutter> > > Hmm. Maybe there's something that can be changed in the adaptec driver > that will make it work better in this situation. > > > Granted, this is the ST Audio card and a 2940 but the chipset is the > > same on the audio card and the 29160 is just a faster version of the > > 29160 (note that there are problems with the on-board SCSI controllers > > too). After re-finding this (it's linked on my web site) I would > > *definitely* recommend getting a cheap IDE drive for your audio data. > > OK, so, any recommendations (or, um, condemnations?) for an IDE drive? > > I'll let y'all know what happens. Many, many thanks for all the help. > > bye > John > >
