[ILUG] [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: Re: IDE error on 2.4.17]

[Dave Airlie]

You also might not have noticed but a lot of Windows version ship with DMA
disabled, they were waiting until Linux found all the problems before
releasing how to switch it on :-)

Dave.


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at tcd.ie):
>
> > Hands up who's never had 'fun' with drivers and hardware installation on a
> > Microsoft OS?
>
> I've noticed that, because of Microsoft's preload monopoly, people often
> claim installation of Microsoft OSes is "easy", having never (or seldom)
> actually performed them -- having no clue what hell some engineer had to
> go through in creating the installation image that got mass-copied out
> to the machine.
>
>
>
>

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