Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 12:26 pm, Anarky wrote:
I saw the fix and everything ... but still I don't believe it's a
nice thing to leave software that does that like that .. might make
people (me too) think that mandrake stuff isn't all that great ...
which is not a nice thing :)
Anarky - you are way out on this. Mandrake does *not* break drives.
Drives that have a built-in firmware fault break when certain
software, which would include windows software, make a recognised
ATAPI function call. It is *not* a Mandrake problem. The only *fix*
Mandrake can give is a temporary one - the removal of some
functionality of the kernel. They should not have to do that.
yes, but assuming those drives only break for Mandrake, maybe not even
other distros nor windows .. then some could (reasonably imo) argue that
the hardware is okay and it's Mandrake's fault. I'm just thinking how
I'm going to explain this to somebody I might promote linux to: how can
I explain that it's his hardware's fault when he sees it working right?
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