From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 20:26:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5088616A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:26:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC6B543D5C for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:26:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.100?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2004 20:26:43 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1101673603.1100.68.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 28 Nov 2004 15:26:43 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: SATA disk experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:26:45 -0000 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.