Toshiba laptops

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:58:27PM -0400, John McGregor wrote:
> I had a Satellite 5003 which died after 14 months of use due to a poorly 
> designed cooling system which was unrepairable. I was fortunate to have 
> purchased an extended warranty, so I was able to replace it with an Acer 
> at no cost to me. At the time that I was searching out possible 
> replacements, I saw reports on Tux Mobil that Toshiba uses a funky 
> method of accessing SATA drives and that this can make installing Linux 
> difficult to impossible. I wouldn't buy a Toshiba again.

Is funky in this case similar to what Dell's do just to make installing
XP easier (that is to run in IDE emulation mode)?

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