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> The problem is that the manufacturer of the core chipset won't release
> information about the programming interface for these chips. No
> communication with these devices is possible.
And here I was going getting all excited that another vendor was doing
what it could to support (or at least be supported under) Linux when it
turns out that in reality it is yet another vendor that needs to be
blacklisted for not being co-operative with the Linux market. Have I
got this wrong?
> The problem is that there is a different device marketed under the
> same
> name which _does_ work with Linux -- the only outward difference is
> that
> the one that works has an eject button on the front. Hence the talk
> of the
> "non-eject" version.
Yeah this whole concept of marketing multiple devices which "under the
hood" are completely different beasts as the same device is just plain
wrong/stupid IMHO. How is one to go and buy the right device other than
to roll the dice, get it home and try it out, waaaaaaaaaaay too late to
be able to take it back when it doesn't work. This practice, AFAIAC
just makes me want to avoid, and advise others to avoid a vendor. I
have done it with Iomega and have steered many a folk away from them
when they were considering purchasing Iomega products. SanDisk will
just have to be another vendor on my blacklist I guess. ~sigh~
The critical mass needed to get vendors to stop being dicks toward Linux
can happen any time now AFAIAC. :-)
Enough whining, I will go crawl back into my hole now. :-)
Oh -- I don't suppose this vendor is actively listening to whines and
being reactive to them are they?
b.
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Brian J. Murrell InterLinx Support Services, Inc.
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