Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:19:59 -0800 From: Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA disk experience/ SATA DVD+RW Message-ID: <41AB5A3F.8070200@pythonemproject.com> In-Reply-To: <41AA857B.2000206@daleco.biz> References: <1101673603.1100.68.camel@chaucer> <41AA857B.2000206@daleco.biz>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Kevin and all, I just bought a beautiful Plextor SATA DVD+RW, etc, etc. Am I screwed, or is this going to work? I didn't see anything in the dmesg related to this. But it is on my AMD64 machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Generic kernel modified for IPFilter and audio, thats all. Even XP-64 beta won't recognize this thing. Rob.
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