SATA disk experience

[Sigmascape1 at cs.com]

This is very cool. I have yet to do anything with this sort of hardware setup, so this is good to know.

MLF

www.sigmascape.com


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>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.
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>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".
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>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 ... >
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>Wonder if you should have cross-posted this to advocacy@?
>Not too late to forward it, if you want to ....
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>Kevin Kinsey
>DaleCo, S.P.
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>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!     
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