On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Is there any answer to this yet/ If not, what does one do with LINUX, just
> say to oneself ahh well, we don't support you modern and common hardware but
> that is ok, just use an older version. Boy that makes for confidence in this
> toy.
>
>
This could be the problem -- ISTR reading that Mandrake "tweaked"
ext2 for the 7.1 release. Further, you still haven't said who the
hard drive manufacturers are. There are known issues with Western
Digital's implementation of Ultra/66 IDE, which according to this
list are failures by the MANUFACTURER to follow the standard. They
are still, from what I read, complying with the 386-architecture
standard instead of the Pentium/Pentium2/Pentium3 architecture
requirements.
If the hardware manufacturers only pay lip service to the standards,
why are you blaming linux? Mandrake has tightened up their code such
that "modern" hardware which doesn't follow the standards is broken.
Why is that Mandrake's fault? Just because it worked in Mandrake 7.0
(which didn't have as tight timing standards / requirements) doesn't
mean that Mandrake 7.1 is broken. Just because it works fine in
Windows 2000 (which, AFAIK, still doesn't require the same HIGH
standards for hardware as "cutting edge" distributions of linux)
doesn't mean it's going to work in Mandrake 7.1 or any other version
of linux which compiles for the latest hardware.
Your misunderstanding is that since it's broken, that Mandrake has
"slipped" when in fact, they've tightened up their code even more.
It's not Mandrake's fault that your hard drive manufacturers were
too cheap or lazy to fully implement the UDMA/66 standard as it's
written. This standard, as I understand it, requires TIGHTER timing
standards and even tighter code, despite the fact that Microsoft
still insists on 8086-compatible code and the hard drive
manufacturers count on that.
Quit blaming linux and start challenging your hard drive
manufacturers to comply with the standards!
John
