[arachne] The wonderful world of PnP (was Re: Why folks install Linux on servers)

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> offers you. A: drive or the highway. In this day and age, there
> is no excuse for not shipping a driver with hardware, Promise
> really screwed this up.

Actually, Promise ships every card with the driver in ROM, so they
really do not need to ship additional drivers. Their controller cards
are amongst the finest examples of Plug'n'Play hardware I have ever
seen; apart from installing the card and connecting the drives to it,
there is nothing to be done other than powering on the PC and watch it
work. :-)

It is really not Promise's fault that OSes like WindowsNT or Linux
defeat the marvellous PnP concept by ignoring the driver and complaining
that they cannot access the drive they have just booted from. :-)

But then I really do not know what people see in those OSes, either, or
why they replace a perfectly working one with one that cannot even
perform simple tasks like calling a BIOS interrupt. But to each his own.
:-D

Regards,

Udo

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