SATA disk experience

[Mike Jeays]

I have just borrowed a brand new Pentium 4 3.6 GHz machine from the
office, intending to use it as an open source demonstration machine.

To my surprise, it has no IDE disk, only a SATA drive, which I have not
used before personally.

Fedora Core 1 and Suse Enterprise Server completely failed to install,
complaining about "no disk drive".

FreeBSD 5.3 installed perfectly, and runs like the wind!  Hats off again
to the FreeBSD team.

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Woo Hoo!  And I second that; FBSD's a great thing, even if
the mascot looks evil sometimes... <heh! j/k ... >

Wonder if you should have cross-posted this to advocacy@?
Not too late to forward it, if you want to ....

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.

Thanks for the suggestion, Kevin - here it is.  And I like the mascot,
although I don't think I would dare wear my FreeBSD T-shirt in the red
states!