Dell c521n (no M$ Tax, thank you) review

[Jim]

John Schember wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:01 -0700, Jim wrote:
>> "My friend Zan and I installed Ubuntu 7.04"
>>
>> Is that the version with the bug that wouldn't let it work with IDE
>> drives? 
> What? I've installed every version of Ubuntu from Breezy forward on a
> computer with only IDE drives.
> 
> John

This is the email I was thinking of. If you haven't had any problems, 
the problem must not affect everybody.

> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:22:44 -0700
> From: <vodhner at cox.net>
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Ubuntu PATA driver issue?
> 
> A friend of mine (a very competent Windows-based engineer who tries Linux frequently but hasn't done real well yet) just tried to bring up Ubuntu and ran into this problem:
> 
>> I decided to try ubuntu on my Linux system get an impression
>> of how it's presented to a generally knowledgeable but Linux
>> distro challenged user.
> 
>> I was partway convinced when you made that choice and then
>> Michael Dell clinched it for me.
> 
>> I downloaded the installation CD and tried running it "live" and
>> when that didn't work, I tried plunging ahead and told it to install.
>> In both cases I got the following message at the start of the
>> operation:
> 
>> BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-3ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
> 
>> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> 
>> /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> 
>> (initramfs)
> 
>> When I researched this, I found that there are a LOT of reports of
>> this same problem.  I've only gone through one support organization
>> so far but there responses seemed to be overwhelmingly arrogant.
>> Can you suggest a support URL that might be interested in resolving
>> a problem. 
> 
>> It appears that ubuntu 7.04 was released with bad pata (IDE) drivers
>> in the package.
> 
> Any help will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Vic

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