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.
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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.