XBOX is sensitive to HD brand.

[Punky]

Hey Guys.
Thought I'd share something with ya.
I went to go replace my Harddrive in my xbox.
I go and prep a new drive and format it and everything. It was a 40gb IBM drive.
Copied some games to it and edited the EVO menu so I could launch it.
Played one game, no prob... (I used Xplorer by the way instead of doing the ftp thing)
Went to play another... (Ghost Recon 2) and it wouldn't play. The logo screen came up but never asked me to hit Start and kind of went into demo mode. The buttons on the controller seemed dead. Swapped controllers and noises were then made when I hit the buttons but still couldn't actually start a game. Thought I'd try from my backup DVD.. same result. I put in the old HD (the old one isn't the original Xbox drive either but it is a Western Digital drive) and tried the DVD again - worked fine.
So I redid the new IBM drive again (formatted etc.) and before doing anything else to it tried the DVD again. Same result - would not work.
I saw the same thing happen with several of the games (but not all).
I've concluded that there is something about certain hard drives that the Xbox does not like. Don't know what it is but it's annoying as hell.

Has anyone ever experienced this before?
Are there certain brands which are known to be better than others? I am assuming Western Digital are good, but what about Maxtor or Fujitsu? Anyone have experience with these brands?