On Friday 20 Mar 2009, Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: > Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > > No. Stability implies less susceptibility to crashes/downtime. > > What you're talking about is compatibility. Get your terminology > > right. > > You do understand that stability is built on top of compatibility, > right? So however "stable" your system is, if it meets with an > incompatible / badly compatible piece of hardware then stability > crashes :) > > And btw supporting an IDE controller off Intels motherboards
The controller is jmicron. Jmicron who?. A company that produces the worst controllers on the planet. Ofcourse they sell them for pennies. So next time LOOOOOK at the hardware properly. I too have been had on one occasion if that is any consolation. RTL sound chip which had a wrong sampling freq on a via mobo, the older version of which worked flawlessly. The new version ofcourse worked on xp. There was a simple change required in the driver which would then break all the other chips. So you would require a modprobe option to make it work. I simply changed the mobo. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
