bay56 wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 3:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset
>
> > On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > Hopefully the VIA chipset doesn't have this problem??
> > >
> > The MVP does, I believe.
>
> Now feeling officially discouraged! Starting to wonder if I ought to come
> back later when it's all a bit more "machine that I can afford" friendly?
> I dunno - I really don't <shrug> OK, it's not linux flaw per se, but it's
> starting to stack it all up a bit!
>
> I had thought/hoped that linux might be the item for the job in the emerging
> far east market - the machine will have to cost very little in that arena,
> and an os which costs effectively half the cost of the machine would be
> badly placed. So I thought in view of that, Linux would have serious hopes
> of becoming a contender in the defacto standard dept. but with this and
> other recently revealed issues of hardware - well it's just not going to be
> is it? It a damn shame to see it miss the "global bus" for these sorts of
> problems.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
Ian....oh come on! There's no reason to get this morose over a problem
that has a simple workaround. It was just the removal of a -p option
from one init file that disabled auto-shutdown that solved the problem
being discussed, wasn't it? That seems a paltry item to be so upset
over. As I said before -- sheesh!!!
Alan
