Hard drive spec change

[drago01]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2010/03/11 12:10 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:
>
>> You know you can buy a PCI SATA controller card for about $10 in any PC
>> junk store, right?
>
> PC BIOS treat those as SCSI cards, which do not play nice with boot device
> order control by the PC BIOS, if not OS device names. Even when neither is a
> problem, it's no given that a PCI slot is available, or the junk store has
> enough cards for all machines with dead HDs on the LAN.

What exactly are you trying to say?

"Do not support newer hardware to give vendors a reaons to sell old hardware" ?

That does make zero sense to me ...