Older Computer and 8.04

[Jim Tarvid]

Two years ago, there was little faith in the detection of optimal UDMA
modes, especially for optical devices. A little like the evolution of ACPI
and APIC 10 years ago, kernel maintainers became more aggressive and
marginal cases started to fail. I went through the process with a DVD drive
until I replaced the data cable.

Odd that systems fail when certain technologies start to work.

Jim

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:13 AM, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 15:51 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> > I have a DVD/CD device, USB port devices and a older replacement of
> > the floppy disk space with a multi memory stick reader. These are not
> > working reliably on 10.04 and I have been testing to see why.
> >
> >      When I gave up and tried version 8.04 I was surprised that all
> > these devices are working fine on this version. Went back to 10.04 and
> > the same problems. It looks as if I might need a newer hardware for
> 10.04?
> >
> > 73 Karl
> >
> > --
> 10.04, like all Ubuntu new releases, is buggy and released too soon.
> Wait until July for 10.04.1, when the developers have sorted all the
> bugs, and by then it should be stable
> The problem is that the developers insist on releasing a "new" version
> every six months.
>
> This system does not make for stable releases.
>
> Cheers the kiwi
>
>
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