William Mattison: >> Questions: When doing my windows patches and scans today, windows >> automatically downloaded and installed a new device driver for the new >> hard drive. Do I need to do that in Fedora? Did Fedora automatically >> do that already? How do I check? Tim: > Most likely, that would be for resolving some problem with the prior > Windows driver for that device. Much less likely, it could be to deal > with a problem with the hard drive itself, that someone modified the > Windows driver to workaround. > > I'm far more inclined to believe that it's the first reason. Different > systems release patches all the time, just because one OS finds a > problem with their own code doesn't mean that a different one will have > the same problem. Unless, the other one made their code by copying > ideas from someone else's bad code. Supplementary: If the updated driver was for a specific drive (it's named for a brand/model by name), I might believe it was the second issue. But it's much more likely to be a driver for the hard drive interface on the computer motherboard. Most internal hard drive drivers are for the interface, related to the chipset involved (SiS, NVidia, et cetera - yes NVidia make more than graphics chips). And external hard drives drivers (such as USB ones), are probable more for the external interface (the enclosure), rather than the actual disc drive. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 (always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on) Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. When it comes to electronics, I'm slightly biased. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
