On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:09:00 -0400, Ken Elliott
<kelliott4@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Ian > "Slackware, on the other hand, is nothing but simple tarballs that
> force you to learn how things really work."
>
> Might have to give that a try on my home machine. I was on the airplane
> reading a Linux admin book when the guy next to me introduced himself as a
> SysAdm for Dish Network. We talked distros and such for an hour. He
> suggested Debian and/or Gentoo. Gentoo appears to support SATA, while
> Debian doesn't. Thus my interest in Gentoo.
>
> SuSE 9.1 was able to install on SATA, but wouldn't boot until I set the BIOS
> for Legacy. Odd... Booting from the CD, it saw both SATA drive just fine
> and formatted them fine.
>
> Ken Elliott
>
Well Debian Sarge or what ever the current testing release is called
support SATA.... as while I dont have sata drives I do have onboard
sata and it does load the drivers and stuff for them.
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