Re: [SLE] SAS (Installer doesn't see hard-drives)

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 10:32 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Darryl Gregorash [10-14-06 09:07]:

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I don't know about the Linux history, I didn't follow this stuff at all much before now.

:^)

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I didn't begin to bother with all this crap, until suddenly I began to get a U taint flag with the driver for the SBAwe32 card I had installed. It was nice to learn that Novell doesn't support only about the largest manufacturer of soundcards on the planet -- I first thought it was because the card is so old, Novell was trying to tell me it is time to replace it. Well, it was time for that, it only does 2.0 sound, but that is hardly relevant to the whole issue of tainting the kernel.

It is not that Novell doesn't support the card,

Actually it is. The "Unsupported" taint flag is something SUSE started and SUSE/Novell continues to use. It means there is no support for that particular driver. Please note that other Creative cards are supported, e.g.

/sbin//modinfo snd-emu10k1|grep supported supported: yes

(snd-emu10k1 is the driver for Soundblaster Live, Audigy etc. More modern cards)