[ubuntu-za] Installation problems

[Dave Lizamore]

Thanks to everybody who came up with suggestions to solve the 
installation problems on my system. The solution was actually pretty 
simple, but illustrates another point in Benjamin Humphrey's criticism 
of Linux. Both Ubuntu 10.04 and Mint 9.0 now only supports the AHCI 
protocol for accessing SATA2 drives and not the IDE protocol.. Win Xp 
supports IDE, but is too old to support AHCI and I had to install the 
Intel drivers. This could only be done during the windows installation 
and I had to reinstall. Why does ubuntu and mint include the ide 
protocol for sata 1 drives but not for sata 2? This is really ridiculous.

Secondly, line input is muted by dedault in both ubuntu and mint. You 
can only fix this through the command line. Why this stupid default setting?

There are several postings on the international forums of guys simply 
going back to windows because they could not access sata drives or 
because they could not get inline sound.

Linux will not become mainstream until bugs like these are fixed.

Thanks

Dave