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)
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:03:18 -0500


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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