[olug] SATA? Do I want this?

[Jay Woods]

Will there be someone knowledgeable about SATA and Sempron 3200 at the Linux 
Installfest? My system won't boot up using Kubunto as it can't find the 
drive.

On Friday 09 December 2005 03:42 pm, Neal Rauhauser wrote:
>  What's this SATA stuff? My trusty Athlon 850 finally cooked off this
> week after years of abuse and a Sempron 2600+ was the cheapest thing
> Futureware had. I hate change and I'm getting a big dose of it today -
> new mainboard, it requires this newfangled DDR memory, and perhaps worst
> of all I have time to write this because I'm downloading FreeBSD 6.0 for
> the AMD64 architecture.
>
>  I hate change. If I have to change, I want to get it all done at once.
> I found this thing called a "SATA cable" in the box with the mainboard.
> Is there a compelling reason to go to a SATA drive on this machine? I
> mean *compelling* - I put a Pentium 133 in for temporary duty and I
> seriously debated doing package building in a vmware machine and just
> leaving that box in that role. If it were a 233 that might very well
> happen. So a compelling reason would be cheaper, more portable, etc.
>
>   Grrr. I'll be here, dealing with change, if anyone has words of wisdom
> on this topic.
>
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