Re: Debian 6.0.0 squeeze unable to detect RAID Controller and NIC Card on Dell R720 2U Rack Server
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 09:44 +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
> That's not 100% reliable.
!!! Very important. Especially grey and white lists for Linux compatible
hardware only provide coarse information. !!!
More safe are blacklists.
I owned and still own white listed gear that doesn't work. Sometimes a
white list ignores that some revisions of hardware can't be used with
Linux and sometimes they ignore that the hardware only does work for
special cases, e.g. a special Linux version is needed or not all options
can be used or using this hardware with Linux does work for the task
it's made for, but it has got negative impact to other tasks.
A note regarding to "tasks". We can own a Swiss Army knife and we can
glue the knife to a washing machine, that would add functionality to the
pocketknife, but also hinder the usage of the original functionality.
Regards,
Ralf
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