https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237164 teheo@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |rmuncrief@comcast.net ------- Comment #12 from teheo@novell.com 2007-01-30 01:41 MST ------- Thanks for the reporting, ranting & nice diagnosis. 1. First on ranting. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for around ten years now and making living out of working on Linux, but I'm in full agreement with you. For servers composed of reliable and well-documented hardware pieces, Linux really excels from both developer's and administrator's point of view (I've been both), but, yeah, for desktop, it really needs serious improvements on hardware support and multimedia as you pointed out. I also feel obligated to point out that Linux desktop has progressed a lot in recent years with maturing desktop environment (both gnome and kde), openoffice and all the great things mozilla has been doing. Still lacking on multimedia front but I now feel very comfortable using it as office desktop. So, please bear with us. Desktop hardware is just very difficult. I'm trying my best to improve ATA side of it but it's still lacking as you just frustratingly found out. 2. And on the bug itself, yeap, it seems cable detection went wrong. There are two types of parallel ATA cables. One is 40 conductor cable while the other is 80-c cable with 40 extra ground lines to reduce signal noise to allow higher transfer rate. Each controller implements cable detection differently and we sometimes get it wrong (sometimes due to lack of documentation). Please post the content of /var/log/boot.msg and the result of 'hwinfo --all'. JFYI, driver/ide/* drivers are going out of service and will be replaced by new libata drivers, which, just as you suggested, will slow down to 40-c speed limit on cases like yours. I appreciate the bug report. Please give us more time to improve things. I'm confident we can achieve comfortable desktop environment in not-so-distant future. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.