Re: Dell SATA harddrives

From: Joshua Baker-LePain (jlb17_at_begone.spam.duke.edu)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:25:47 +0000 (UTC)

In article <d064f8$64c$1@news-int2.gatech.edu>, J Poje wrote:
> So I have a Dell Dimension 8400 that I am happy with, but I want to dual
> boot XP Pro and a Linux distro (which I never got a chance to do with my
> old machine because of the wifi card, another long story of
> incompatibility). It's got a 150GB SATA HD in it, which is sweet until
> I try to get a Linux distro on it. To date, I've tried installing
> Slackware 10.0, Madrake 10.0, and Mandrake 10.1. The first two
> completely failed to detect the disk and the last one seemed to see it,
> but then threw an IO error when I got to the partitioning part of the
> install. I ALSO tried a modified ISO for Slackware 10.0 with a sata.i -
> this time it _seemed_ to get a distro on the disk, but I could never get
> it to boot.
>
I've installed CentOS 3.3 (RHEL3 rebuild) on Dell Optiplex GX280s and
SX280s with SATA hard drives with no problem. Centos 4 is out now, as
well. 

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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