Brook Humphrey posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted
below,  on Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:01:18 -0700:

> what about high point they clearly state that they support linux mandrake
> right on their literature. well and redhat and suse.

Didn't I read their RAID drivers anyway are sort of like NVidia's
drivers -- available but proprietary?  If that's accurate (and it may not
be if I'm recalling inaccurately or my source was incorrect), they'll
likely be doing the same thing with Serial ATA drivers..

I made that mistake once with an NVidia video card, b4 I switched to
Linux, as I was thinking about doing so and knew enough to ensure
Linux drivers were available for any hardware I purchased, but
unfortunately didn't realize there WAS such a thing as closed source
hardware drivers, at the time.  That's one mistake I hope to avoid, next
time, and certainly don't want to expand to any other components!

(I happen to be interested in the this thread as well, tho I will probably
wait a bit for my upgrade, and hope to do a Socket 940 dual
Opteron/Athlon-64 when I upgrade, as well as serial ATA, and I still have
to look into PCI-Express which I've just seen hints of but don't know
what it's all about yet.. if I can hold off on the upgrade long enough to
get what I really want.)

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