>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Austin L. Denyer
>(SysAdmin.) as root
>Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 8:17 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert]
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>
>Hi.
>
>> > The hard drive is a Maxtor 92048D8 20 gig hard drive that runs
>at 7200 RPM
>> > and is a plain old IDE, No ATA66.
>> > I am sure that you mean out of spec. I doubt it is out of
>spec, this drive
>> > is pretty new. It performs flawlessly in other systems. I they accepted
>> > before they should not have backtracked, once you allow
>something to work
>> > you should not shut it down. As IBM about what we had to do on
>the AS/400 to
>> > prevent this. You are telling me that Windows can handle it and LINUX
>> > can't???
>
>Erm, you sing the praises of Windoze for backwards compatability, and
>yet Micro$oft themselves are looking to do away with much of the support
>for earlier (older) kit, such as non-USB keyboards/rodents, etc. Go
>figure...
But they have not. i never herad that. I am sure that itr will not happen if
ever until they are at least as outdated as 5inch flooy drives. Beseides,
the drivers will still be there from manufacutures.
>
>> > I told you. Nobody ever asked before. It is the BIOS that handles this
>> > anyhow is it not. Version 7/1 should not se anything that 7.0 did not.
>> > This message is useless, it does not ell why it is refusing to
>accept it.
>
>I think you will find that with Linux, the BIOS only handles the drive
>until the relevant parts of the kernel have loaded. After that, Linux
>handles the job itself.
>
This would be stupid in my opinion. There are too many drives. It is like no
drivers would be written and it will all be in the Kernel..
It is The BIOS that makes an API that is constant and that is the way I am
sure it is done.
>No doubt some of the Gurus on this list will correct me if I'm wrong...
>
>Regards,
>
>Ozz.
>
