[plug] re installind linux

[Jason Posavec]

I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents regarding SATA drives and RedHat / 
Fedora.

Red Hat is actually what drove me away from Linux temporarily for a 
couple of years. It was constantly crashing, no peripherals would run on 
it, yet everyone said that RedHat was the most stable and "best" of all 
the distros.

During the couple of years that I went back to XP, I upgraded to a new 
motherboard with only SATA drives running on it. Late last year I 
discovered Ubuntu and installed that on my SATA computer with not a 
glitch to date so far. I've even tinkered with running a SATA pci 
expander card and had 4 SATA drives running at one stage. They just 
showed up as sdc and sdd.

So my only recommendation to anyone having trouble with SATA installs is 
to give Ubuntu a try and see if it's just the distro that's causing the 
problems.

Jason