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Technology Stocks : Maxtor (MXTR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (29)	11/29/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 467

Lawrence, thanks. After configuring this drive as a master, Windows still insists on turning the DMA setting on. And after waiting through a very slow boot-up and boot-down with this DMA setting chosen to be disabled in between, everything runs fine afterwards. What an ordeal this episode is. Although the Maxtor's drive quality is superb (an 8.4GB Seagate disk I recently bought I had to send back to get it replaced), it has no indication of whether Maxtor is going to make a lot of money on this product. I believe I am not alone to experience this problem. When big boys like Dell and Compaq first taste a bad experience, they will shut the doors on Maxtor. It would be very difficult to get on the good side of the big OEMs again. I wish Maxtor has done more testing and documenting all these incompatibilities. What prompted me to purchase a Maxtor drive was because of my lousy experience with Seagate. Seagate and Maxtor are the only two companies that produce drives to spin at 7,200 RPM under EIDE. Time Traveler