On Friday 20 Mar 2009, Dinesh A. Joshi wrote:
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
No. Stability implies less susceptibility to crashes/downtime. What you're talking about is compatibility. Get your terminology right.
You do understand that stability is built on top of compatibility, right? So however "stable" your system is, if it meets with an incompatible / badly compatible piece of hardware then stability crashes :)
And btw supporting an IDE controller off Intels motherboards
The controller is jmicron. Jmicron who?. A company that produces the worst controllers on the planet. Ofcourse they sell them for pennies.
So next time LOOOOOK at the hardware properly.
I too have been had on one occasion if that is any consolation.
RTL sound chip which had a wrong sampling freq on a via mobo, the older version of which worked flawlessly. The new version ofcourse worked on xp. There was a simple change required in the driver which would then break all the other chips. So you would require a modprobe option to make it work. I simply changed the mobo.