Why are some having so much trouble with F7?

[Kevin Kempter]

On Saturday 23 June 2007 09:35:17 Eric wrote:
> At 11:13 AM 6/23/2007, R. Irving wrote:
>
> <RI>>>>>DVD won't install to systems with SATA Drives... FC-7 team has
> found this bug, and decided they aren't going to fix it, as it has been
> labeled "Wont Fix" in the database<<<<<
>
> Hmmm ... so it has.  That seems strange.  Maybe there is no ready fix, or
> maybe it's a kernel problem that's beyond the scope of the F7 team's
> mandate... maybe it's some limitation of the SATA driver and the person
> responsible for the SATA driver isn't available right now, or something...
>
> I know there has been considerable discussion of SATA on this list... since
> I don't have a SATA drive (nor any knowledge of SATA and Linux) and traffic
> on this list is WAY too heavy to read every posting, I've been skipping
> over them... guess it'll be interesting to go back and read them...

for what it worth... 
I have an IBM thinkpad (Z60m) with a SATA drive and fedora 7 installed without 
a single issue....