[plug] distro differences - SuSE scores others fail

[Jason Posavec]

I'm surprised you didn't try out the number one most downloaded distro 
on the Net - Ubuntu. Sometimes I forget that I have a mix of SATA and 
PATA drives in my box as Ubuntu picks them up without a hitch. At one 
stage, I even had 4 SATA drives running at once as a proof of concept, 
running with a Promise TX2 SATA expander.

Jason



Gavin Chester wrote:
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> In desperation tried SuSE 10.1.  Not a problem, thank you very much.
> Both SATA drive and extra PATA drive recognised, XP partition shrunk and
> install completed without a _single_ hitch.  Just shows that you've got
> to be prepared to pick and choose your distro according to hardware
> compatibility, doesn't it? ;-) 
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> Gavin.
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