SATA disk experience

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Mike Jeays wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>

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.