On 18/07/2019 14:09, Adrian wrote:
> Having spoken to Samsung, it seems that the disk is not compatible with
> a Pi.


LOL!

  years ago trying to install; Interactive Unix on a 386 PC It got so
far and hung with no error message.

I phoned up the UK importers and got a nice asian gentlemen who informed
me that 'sorry, the bios, she is incompatible'.

I wasnt sto sure so I phoned Interactive in the USA, and after a bit of
blah got on to a supprt chap. 'where is it hanging, Ah, ok, its looking
for a  maths coprocessor there, have you got one? 'Nope'. Is it jumpered
out on the Motherboard? 'I dont know' 'well jumper it out and it should
install'

'Are you sure that what is going on?'
'Yep. I wrote the installer'

It installed. I had similar experiences with Cisco., with parts of Sun
and with other companiues that are smaller and now forgotten. Getting
through to the guy who wrote the ciode...was always guaranteed to get te
right answerr.

YOUR answer means, translated from taiwanese or whatever 'I cant be
bothered with a complicated support issue so if I tell you its
incompatible you will bugger off, right?'


'The BIOS, she is incompatible' became a standing joke around both my
company and the PC supplier's. "WE dont jumper out the lack of
coprocessor because Windows ignores it anyway"



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