[SLE] Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!

From: Terje J. Hanssen (nteknikk_at_monet.no)
Date: 05/29/04

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    I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has
    been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say
    about the free SuSE "Installation support".

    The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI
    devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum:
    http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html)

            Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected
            HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected
            Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected

    It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the
    HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror
    /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional
    software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that
    is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as
    /media/recorder11.

    I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have
    tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither
    SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these
    devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and
    longer, and not leave the problems to the customers.

    I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are
    not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE
    support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this
    problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in
    their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have
    never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has
    fitted the limited rules for the free installation support.

    Terje J. Hanssen 

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