On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:26:13 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/18 Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de>: > > In most cases not, but this is depending on your board. If there is > > a S-ATA/RAID controller onboard which doesn't have any suitable > > driver inside Linux kernel, you might need a driver CD. > > > > I see, thanks. So it is a matter of works | not works as opposed to > works | works better. Well, in some cases there is just no big difference between the free drivers and maybe closed source drivers. In other cases you just don't have a choice because of hardware vendors only provide closed source drivers (you may remember Nvidia's and ATI's graphic card drivers in past). So here in such cases it is really a matter of it works or not works at all. Regards, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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