Motherboard and SATA questions

From: Scot L. Harris (webid_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 01/31/05

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    I am in the process of collecting the parts for a system that will run
    Fedora Core 3. One of the things I am not certain about is using SATA
    type drives. Have always used IDE drives or SCSI drives in previous
    systems. The motherboard I am looking at is an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe. I am
    planning on using several Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model
    6B300S0 drives as well as Plextor Serial ATA 12X DVD+/-RW Drive, Model
    PX-712SA/SW drive.

    Three things I have not been able to find out yet, first will this
    motherboard support a total of 8 SATA drives?

    Second has anyone else used Fedora Core 3 (or 2) with this board
    successfully? Plan is to boot from the SATA drive, I don't plan on
    having any IDE drives in this box. And I have seen some issues with SATA
    drives reported here.

    Third, will I be able to boot the system from the Plextor SATA DVD
    drive?

    I am currently not planning on using any of the raid options with this
    system.

    ASUS "P5GD2 Deluxe" 915P Chipset Motherboard For Intel LGA 775 CPU
    -RETAIL

    Model# P5GD2 DELUXE Item # N82E16813131506
    Specifications:
    Supported CPU: LGA775 Pentium 4(HT)
    Chipset: i915P + ICH6R
    FSB: 800/533MHz
    RAM: 4x DIMM Dual Channel DDR2 400/533 Max 4GB
    Slots: 1x PCI-Ex16, 3x PCI-Ex1, 3x PCI
    Ports: 2x PS/2,1x LPT,8x USB2.0(Rear 4),1x 1394,1x RJ45,1x IEEE1394a,1x
    WLAN,SPDIF Out,Audio Ports
    IDE: 1x ATA 100 up to 2 Devices, 2x ATA 133 up to 4 Devices by ITE 8212F
    with RAID 0/1/0+1
    SATA: 4x SATA with RAID 0/1, 4x SATA by Silicon 3114R with RAID
    0/1/0+1/5
    Onboard Audio: C-Media 8-CH
    Onboard LAN: Marvell 88E8053 GbE, 54 Mbps 802.11g
    Onboard 1394: 2x 1394
    Form Factor: ATX 

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