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Message-ID: <45A521A0.9050205@wolfmountaingroup.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:25:52 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
CC: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash
IDE chip under 2.6.18
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:29:28PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
>
>
>>You can install the Intel Matrix driver after "adjusting" the inf file...
>>
>>
>
>Hmm, I guess a good question is: Why should I have to edit the inf file?
>Is it an issue of them making it only install if your hardware is
>already set to ahci mode? But how am I supposed to boot and install the
>driver until I have the driver installed then. Well I might try that
>next time I go there.
>
>How stupid of intel.
>
>
No doubt part of the Wintel (intel + Microsoft) strategy to perpetually
break non-windows platforms with new incompatible
hardware like the switch over from the e1000 MT adapters to e1000 GT
which are not backward compatible with the older chipsets.
I still have not seen the GT adapter work correctly off windows.
Jeff
:-)
Jeff
>--
>Len Sorensen
>
>
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