Comment 93 for bug 228302

Hey Igor, why do you say that my bug is prob a new bug? I am experiencing the same as everyone in this bug... I too am at 16-bit IO, without UltraDMA, and when I try enabling 32-bit IO I get the same ioctl error...

The only diff is people are reporting this bug with hardy-fiesty etc etc, and karmic, and now lucid... I am using Karmic...my hardware may be new...but I'll tell you a secret, I am not using 32-bit IO and I cannot enable it...

And it sounds like I would have to re-write Karmic just to enable 32-bit IO.

Also which I did not mention, I have a laptop as well and its not spanking new, it may be 2002 or 2004...and I am using 16-bit IO without UDMA in this as well. I may not be a rocket scientist, but I have come to the conclusion that Karmic came out in late 2009, and my laptop came out in 2002 maybe 2004...so I would say Karmic should be BETTER than my laptop. But its not...Karmic cannot fully utilize the massive technological power of the hardware that's being developed now in 2002 or 2004...er, uhm, I mean if you took a copy of Karmic and travelled back to 2002 or 2004, then my last statement makes, er, sense.

You know its 2010...and 25 years ago we had 16-bit IO...and you should have seen the pieces of crap that had 16-bit IO.

I predicted new OS after new OS will come out, and we'll still be at 16-bit IO. I am a bit like Nostradamus then!

And I predict that there are thousands out there maybe more, yea prob more... fiesty, hardy, karmic, lucid who are at 16-bit and don't even know it! So then this is our little secret...

The "switch over to Ubuntu" slogan should be changed to..."UBUNTU! - 1982 brought that 8-bit computer, Commodore 64, faster than one of those... UBUNTU! - And remember in 1985 came the 16-bit Commodore Amiga! Now, welcome to 2010... UBUNTU is more processing power than an Amiga yet preserving the same drive IO access speeds!"

There's gotta be 1 unemployed programmer somewhere...we just gotta find him and we'll do a collection and we'll pay him for an hours work just to repair this bug. Unless of course, you've found him already, and thats why this bug has been around for OVER 2 years, because he knows once he's fixed this bug he will have outlived his usefulness!!!

Can we request Ubuntu, that whenever they finally do release a 32-bit version, they stipulate it in the download name, like for example: Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid 32-bit IO.rar...or even change current ones...Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid 16-bit IO.rar and Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid 8-bit IO (if they invented that)!

Hope I made someone out there laugh...have a good one!