Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 06, 2004 10:25 PM
Personally, I am losing my faith/like for RH based distros. RH has become pretty arrogant and it shows in some odd places like drivers included in the distro.
I currently tried to install FC3 on an older 4 CPU PII Xeon system that had a PCI DPT SmartRAID controller in it. Now, the EATA_DMA driver has been a fixture in Linux kernels since the 2.2 days. Somehow RH hasn't included it with any of it's products since RH9. That includes AS and ES. Now I understand that you can't support all hardware forever and old hardware has to drop out somewhere, but it seems to not have rhyme or reason other than personal preference for the RH boys. I checked, the EATA drivers are still in the base 2.6 kernel and deliberately taken out by the RH boys.
Here is what really p*ssed me off. They still have support for Adaptec 1520 cards. The 1520 has been out of production and official support as long as the SmartRAID cards and is an ISA card no less! As a matter of fact since Adaptec purchased DPT, the Smart series controllers are officially an Adaptec product.
They also still have drivers for a boat load of old ISA cards including 3C509, SMC Tiger, NEC, DEC just to name a few. They even have drivers for cards that never really worked well and are as scarce as hen's teeth like the old Compaq EISA RAID cards that haven't been supported by Compaq since the old Proliant 1000's and 1500's. Those were 486 and Pentium systems!!!
Hey RedHAt! Your arrogance is showing and it is costing you. You just drove away a loyal user since the 5.2 version. Don't think I am just another cranked off hobbyist either. I am an IS manager for $900M/yr business. We currently have 50+ licenses of AS under support. Novell has been hounding us to switch to SuSE and offering us some pretty sweet deals to switch. They will get their chance now.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 06, 2004 10:25 PMI currently tried to install FC3 on an older 4 CPU PII Xeon system that had a PCI DPT SmartRAID controller in it. Now, the EATA_DMA driver has been a fixture in Linux kernels since the 2.2 days. Somehow RH hasn't included it with any of it's products since RH9. That includes AS and ES. Now I understand that you can't support all hardware forever and old hardware has to drop out somewhere, but it seems to not have rhyme or reason other than personal preference for the RH boys. I checked, the EATA drivers are still in the base 2.6 kernel and deliberately taken out by the RH boys.
Here is what really p*ssed me off. They still have support for Adaptec 1520 cards. The 1520 has been out of production and official support as long as the SmartRAID cards and is an ISA card no less! As a matter of fact since Adaptec purchased DPT, the Smart series controllers are officially an Adaptec product.
They also still have drivers for a boat load of old ISA cards including 3C509, SMC Tiger, NEC, DEC just to name a few. They even have drivers for cards that never really worked well and are as scarce as hen's teeth like the old Compaq EISA RAID cards that haven't been supported by Compaq since the old Proliant 1000's and 1500's. Those were 486 and Pentium systems!!!
Hey RedHAt! Your arrogance is showing and it is costing you. You just drove away a loyal user since the 5.2 version. Don't think I am just another cranked off hobbyist either. I am an IS manager for $900M/yr business. We currently have 50+ licenses of AS under support. Novell has been hounding us to switch to SuSE and offering us some pretty sweet deals to switch. They will get their chance now.
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