[ale] T41 drive problems

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:39 -0500, Dan Lambert wrote:

> My T41 ran Ubuntu beautifully. The only thing that didn't work was the
> Windows specific keys. Who cares!
> 
> I am sold on the rugged quality of the IBM/Lenovo laptops. I've had
> Dells, Gateways, and Compaqs, and none of them were worth the powder to
> blow to h**l. The only thing that came close was the Toshibas, and I
> haven't had one of those in years. 
> 
> I am currently looking at going with the Thinkpad X60s, but would like
> to hear other's takes on their preferred brand. The money isn't spent
> yet.


For about the past seven or eight months, I have had my Toshiba
Satellite (A55-S1064, purchased in-store from Wal*Mart), which has been
working beautifully with the Ubuntu family of systems.  However, it
doesn't run FreeBSD all that well (there seems to be a problem in the
SATA driver that this system requires or something; I can boot up
FreeBSD from a cold boot, but from a warm boot, the system hangs booting
at the SATA driver).

The display in my system also works really nicely in the dual-head
configuration.

    -- Mike

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