Hello, Just wondering .. if the next kernel release might / will have any support for ATA/UDMA-66 Controllers, (the most common ones .. anyway) built in, so no extra patching / compileing and etc, would be needed? What about Mandrake's next build, of a new kernel release .. will it have any support for ATA-66 Controllers? It would be nice, to see Mandrake and other Linux types, atleast understand that the hard drives are connected to such a device. I understand that some extra info would most likly or still have to be provided, but it be a lot nicer if one could just do so, at install time and be done with it .. would it not? [ Off topic .. or sort of. ] I was talking to a friend today, who said: " I'm not going to install Linux, until it better supports devices and installs them, seems to me you had to look all over the net, just to find info on how to install your sound card, hard drive Controller, Video card and whatever else. Isn't that right? .. jeese and look at the work involved!" I had to admit that it took me a long time to find all the stuff I needed and to download it .. etc, etc. We talked about it and I tried to explain why. He just laughed and said .. "Windoze always seems to have some kinda driver that will work in most cases. I'll wait until Linux grows up ". I had to laugh when he said .. " Next time I'm on the net, I'll send you a link to some of them HOW-DOs, so you can spend days reading them ". That is not a typo .. he said howdo and not howto. Hee Hee. All the best! Thanks! -- Mark mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] " It is now safe to shutdown your computer _ or is it ... HaHaHaaaaaa ?! "
