On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 5:42 pm, Marc wrote: > My views are based on the fact that the Maxtor diagnostic software > says that the hard drive suppled by Gateway is not properly supported > by the BIOS on the mother board suppled BY gateway.
My guess is that the BIOS works well enough to pull in the boot block, and then Windows uses its own drivers, whereas Linux uses the BIOS to some extent. Back in 1994/5 we bought a top of the range server from Gateway. The specs would look silly now even if I could remember them, but there was no way this was going to be a workstation. We tried to install NT but it failed. Gateway support denied all responsibility: "We only support Windows 3.11". I haven't even seen a Gateway machine since, I certainly wouldn't buy one, and I regularly tell people to avoid them. Bad PR: ten years and counting. -- Richard Urwin
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