> 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..
for raid functionality it's like the Nvidia's drivers, but if you drop the raid parts, and compile it as ide controller (no raid) it should be GPL ( case i didn't miss smth ) > 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.) > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- > Benjamin Franklin > > > -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net
