Re: [tlug] Laptop/notebook PC recommendations?

["Hiroshi Miura" <miura@example.com>]

Hi,

If we try most recent machines, we may face the trouble with
SATA driver and CD/DVD  drives. Same is also on my IBM desktop w/ Debian.

T60 Centrino Duo use 945PM express chipset which support SATA AHCI.
Because recent linux distro enables SATA support in default,
you may want to enable DVD/CD support on SATA at boot time.

For kernel 2.6.14 and newer: enable ATAPI support in the SATA system
using libata.atapi_enabled=1 as kernel boot option. This option is
still experimental
but useful.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux
This wiki may helps you.

Hiroshi

2006/4/21, Michael(tm) Smith <smith@example.com>:
> I'm looking to buy a new laptop/notebook. Any recommendations?
>>
> I recently tried out a ThinkPad T60 Centrino Duo, but couldn't get
> anything running on it. I tried five different live CDs (Centos
> and Debian-based Xen, Japan Knoppix, Kubuntu, Ubuntu), with no
> luck. I also tried a dry run of with a Debian testing net-install
> CD, but it fails at the point where it's trying to figure out what
> driver to install for the CD-ROM drive.
>
>

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HIroshi Miura