I will atest to the hosing of the filesystem when enabling DMA as I
experienced that with RH7.0. On a sidenote I installed Debian 2.2
potato today and while I was getting packages from the Debian server
my 18 mo. old daughter decided to push that amusing black button on
the case and shut down for me. I rebooted went to dselect install and
bada bing it finished it's job and it works great. I had to run fsck
as well but it works!
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hawke" <proudhawk19021@home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: What Distro to use


> Bill,
> I whole heartedly agree.
> Redhat has been more of a nuisance than not.
> they even changed the hdparm command in such a way that if you
> turn on dma, you hose your filesystem (no recovery).
>
> There are other small problems associated with gcc and a ffew of
> the devel tools, but the updates have been recent and frequent.
>
> Hawke
>
> Bill Warner wrote:
> >
> > Working for a company where we have a unix support staff of 10
people.  8
> > of witch are Debian users/admins and none of witch are Redhat fans
or really
> > much for users.  Now because of this missconception that you can
just call
> > Redhat and they will give you a magic answer I have to re-learn
Redhat
> > and curse it at every bump that could have been avoided and was
when we
> > first brought everything up on Debian.
> >
> > I swear by Debian and swear at Redhat.
> >
> > Bill Warner
> >
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