Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:12:11 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA disk experience Message-ID: <41AA857B.2000206@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <1101673603.1100.68.camel@chaucer> References: <1101673603.1100.68.camel@chaucer>
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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.
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