Re: 2.4.19, don't "hdparm -I /dev/hde" if hde is on a Asus A7V133 Promise ctrlr, or...

["D.A.M. Revok" <marvin@synapse.net>]

Then I'm not buying Promise from now on.  Period.

Being non-able to both 
boot-from-SCSI-CDR, and
use smartctl
is non-acceptable, and if their NDAs rig that then they are a threat 
against /everything/ I base on my systems.

Promise, your business-model damages your customer-relationship's 
survival, are you listening??


On Wed 18 December, 2002 17:38, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 21:35, D.A.M. Revok wrote:
>> So.  I /think/ that somehow the Promise controller isn't being
>> initialized properly by the Linux kernel, UNLESS the mobo's BIOS
>> inits it first?
>
>In some situations yes. The BIOS does stuff including fixups we mere
>mortals arent permitted to know about.

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