On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:23:12AM +0100, David Fletcher wrote: > I'm currently running FC5, will probably upgrade to F7 in a couple of > months. > > Unfortunately my CD/DVD rewriter appears to have died, before it's > even seen a dual layer disk :'( > > SATA hard drives run without problems for me, but now that SATA > optical drives are starting to appear in the shops, would it be OK to > buy one of these and get rid of another wide ribbon cable? > > Is anybody already running them with Fedora? > Not with Fedora but I found on my home Slackware system that a SATA CD drive was easier to get going than a 'legacy' PATA one. I actually bought a SATA one to enable me to boot successfully from CD. This was because the JMB legacy IDE interface drivers are (or at least were) a bit dodgy. The SATA CD 'just worked' when I connected it. (I'm on this list because my work machine runs FC6 by the way) -- Chris Green
