[Bryn M. Reeves]

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On 01/29/2013 10:09 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> This is simply not true.
> 
> There are hundreds of thousands of older desktops that are not 
> technically servers that have lots of older interfaces.

Evidence is better than unsupported claims. Although smolt has been
retired for some time now it may be possible to use the data that was
collected to get some numbers as well as a sense of how non-standards
based adapters are declining in the field.

> To say that non-AHCI controllers don't matter is to place a
> dignificant barrier to use or adoption of Linux or Fedora.

Nobody is saying that these controllers don't matter. What we're
talking about is making something /possibly/ require the use of rescue
media where it hasn't since F12 (but always did previously when this
hardware was much more common).

> I suspect that working in a situation where one is not buying or 
> maintaining ones own computer has produced a newrsighted view of
> what the computing ecoshpere has lurking in it.

I buy and maintain my own systems as I guess do most people interested
enough in Linux to be working on it full time.

Certainly for commercial Linux users I think this set is now
vanishingly small (although obviously there is a much broader range of
high-end storage adapters to contend with).

Regards,
Bryn.
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