<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 12212005 1612 GMT-5 I didnt mean to say its hard to get it going on a SATA drive. I personally have had some trouble with motherboards and SATA drives. Just little things - stupid things that get under your skin. I just like to use what works - and for me its been IDE so far. Really, just plug it in a go from there. If you start to have odd problems like it not being recognized - which I have had for no apparent reason - that is when it gets frustrating. Have you already purchased all your parts? Wade taeb wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20051221215705.GB12760@netins.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 05:12:24PM -0600, Wade Smart wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">12192005 1710 GMT-5 The BIOS is not related to the BIOS so yes, you can run only Linux. When your system starts up you will see a little note: F10 for BIOS, something like that. That is how you edit that. I would stick to what works - IDE. SATA is great - if you want to work to get it working. Wade </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks for the reply, Wade. Could you expand on what's involved in getting Ubuntu onto a SATA drive? I'm not looking to make this project any harder than necessary, but I had decided on SATA in part because of the small cables being a good thing for air flow in the case. If there's reasonable instructions somewhere I don't mind building some software packages, but if I have to start hacking from scratch I'll live with the ribbon cables. Thanks again for your help. tonyB </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>