On 24 May 2006 06:51:02 -0700
"llothar" <llothar@web.de> wrote:

> To write a device driver in the late 90'th that does not work with
> _ALL_ modern ATAPI cdroms is just a failure of the programmers and
> terrible ignorance from Sun. I've never seen such problems with
> anything operating system except Solaris.

You see too much goodness in one direction and not enough in the other.

I've had endless hassles with a cheap (Chips & Technologies, to be
exact) mobo from 1999 trying to get it to boot from a LG DVD drive
(which with an ASUS board of the same year gave no trouble). There is no
way that one can guarantee that code written in the late 1990ies will
react correctly to hardware from 2006. There's plenty of new hardware
that would not supported by Windows 2000 (or XP) without modern
drivers.

The U5/10 are not very good, hardware-wise. But how many x86 systems of
the same vintage are still worth using? I don't understand why people
still want to use U5/10 systems.

> And the Sun guys don't do anything against it. Even with modern
> supported IDE controllers you are limited to 120 GB with Solaris 10.

Baloney. I've a couple of 300GB drives in a Solaris 10 box.

> This sucks, sucks, sucks.

It's really very simple - if you don't like Sun, or Solaris, buy
something else.

--
Stefaan A Eeckels
--
Isn't it amazing how a large number of evil morons can give the
appearance of being a single evil genius? --Mel Rimmer