gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:13:04 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Motherboards


On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:02:12AM -0500, Mike Leone wrote:
> I've purchased 3 Asus mobos in the last few years; none came with
> *nix drivers of any kind.

Um... there's a reason that standards like ATX exist. It's so people
don't have to worry about things that you all are worrying about.

(Same goes for the ATA standards.)

If you support the ATX command set, you're fine. So Linux is fine.

If you support ATA-133, you support any ATA-133-compliant device.
If a card doesn't work, then it's the hardware mfg's fault, and
you should complain at them.  That won't fix anything, but Linux
should have a decent quirks structure in the kernel by now to deal
with silly hardware mfgs.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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