Re: Suse 9.0 and ASUS P4P800 Deluxe...

From: Ruel Smith (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 03/01/04


Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:00:54 -0500

On Sunday February 29 2004 1:54 pm, David Haggett decided to vomit:

>> I'm running SuSE 9.0 with an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe.......intergrated
>> sound card was recognized and plays upon startup, playing Tux Racer,
>> etc. Haven't tried the CDrom or DVD yet.
>
> Until I saw the fallout from the the loser troll who's been posting here
> recently, I was going to purchase one of these motherboards to upgrade my
> own PC. Have you found any problems with the hard-disk controllers? I
> don't intend to use RAID or SATA initially, as I have two very useful
> ATA100 drives with much free space.

Wait until SuSE 9.1, or 10, or whatever it is for full support for SATA in
the 2.6.x kernel. It should definitely support the ICH5 SATA, but I doubt
the ICH5R software RAID. Via VT6410 support might be there as well. That
should fill your bill.



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