[arachne] Re: The wonderful world of PnP

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Udo,
 You are the only one who has mentioned a problem
using a Promise with Linux. Maybe it was the lack
of an administrator.
Rob

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On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Udo Kuhnt wrote:


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I am confusing nothing. I full well know the difference
between a kernel and distro. All your sidetracking is
just an attempt to further your FUD against anything
not DOS.


Oh, but it was not an attempt to spread FUD, rather the opposite: An
attempt to demonstrate how the necessity to use something can alter our
view of it.

To get back to the plot, I like the Promise controller because it works
without the need for additional drivers - in DOS. And all of the
problems mentioned on this list with the Promise controller in both
Windows and Linux were due to the fact that those OSes did not work with
it without additional drivers. But as this example shows, people who are
using Windows do not say "Windows is crap because it does not work with
my Promise controller", they rather say "That Promise controller is crap
because it does not work with Windows". So they view the same piece of
hardware differently because they use different OSes.

I find it remarkable that so-called PnP OSes tend to have the most
difficulties with drivers in this case whereas in DOS which is commonly
viewed as an OS that lacks PnP support it works out of the box - the
true meaning of "Plug&Play". :-)

Regards,

Udo

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