[Wftl-lug] Bye bye desktop Linux

[Michael Willems]

Joe,

I think, from what I see and read, that you are spot on: "Motherboard manufactures are now optimizing their bios for SATA drives as native and "older" PATA drives are being emulated somehow". That is my feeling as well, having seen and read what I have seen and read.

Btw, I have not yet had the chance to try other OSs.

Michael


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jlnca at sbcglobal.net 
  To: wftl-lug at salmar.com 
  Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 15:19
  Subject: Re: [Wftl-lug] Bye bye desktop Linux


  All this problems with hard drive installs seem to be originating with older hard drives not 
  being properly recognized I don't recall where I read Motherboard manufactures are now 
  optimizing their bios for SATA drives as native and "older" PATA drives are being emulated
  somehow. This causes an untold amount of woe for the kernel developers which must guess
  how to account for this situation.

  It also seems to be the case that 64 bit systems generally have more stable drivers built into
  the bios. 

  As for distros there are some based on Ubuntu that are very user friendly I really like 
  Mint Linux which you can get in either USA or worldwide editions the worlwide edition has 
  all the software that distributions can not legally include in the USA
  Joe





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