Civileme, Denis, et al...
Gentlemen, the real problem, in my humble opinion, with LM7.1 is the newly
acquired functionality to set up UDMA right out of the box. I undestand the
nature of the problem. It would seem that the sloppy coding done by hard drive
makers has finally become our bane. While upgrading to a newer OS on a machine
with i686 codes has caused us to be painfully aware of our hard drive
shortcomings, we must still find a solution somehow. I tried installing LM7.1
on four different hard drives, and it was a four strike failure. All error
messages reading "failure to find IDE device" were pretty much the main
result. These were standard hard drives, two Western Digital, one Seagate,
and one Toshiba. All of these were the ATA66 type. The WD's were with the VIA
Apollo Pro bus chip. The Toshiba was with the Intel 440 bus chip, and the
Seagate had Intel 810 chip set. What gives? More importantly, has this issure
been discussed amongst the Mandrake engineers? What do you suggest as a work
around, and what provisions are being made to avoid this issue in future
versions? I think, by far, your LM7.02 is superior to any other distro on the
market, and I will continue to use it. I do hope we can come to some
resolution in the near future. Yes, this seems to be hardware related but if
we wait for hardware makers to take us Linux people serious, we may be waiting
an interminably long time......
Thanks for your attention,
Craig Woods
Sarang Lakare wrote:
> this is really rediculous.. I hate mandrake for 7.1.. I had fallen in love
> with Mandrake with their 7.0 release.. and 7.1 is really crappy when it
> comes to installation.. there are things that don't work and machines that
> run perfectly with 7.0 but don't install/run 7.1.. and there is that crappy
> upgrade to 7.1 which takes a whole day to upgrade!
>
> wake up mandrake b4 u loose u're loyal followers... don't give out a beta
> product.
>
> -sarang
