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This is a really feature-rich motherboard. I'm running Gentoo-amd64 on it. There are a couple of issues to note:
- To make the onboard-lan card work, use the sk98lin driver. Most distro probably won't detect the card. (just do a modprobe sk98lin and you're set)
- A little annoyance: If you've a PCI soundcard installed, the Board ignores the settings in the BIOS and plainly disables onboard sound. This is annyoing to me, since I really would like to use them both. Note that this is not the case with the onboard-lan. I can use both lan-cards
- (At least) On amd64, the sound-quality of the onboard sound was crispy. This is a driver-issue. It's fixed in alsa-cvs. So if you use alsa-drivers >= 1.0.3 (I think) you should not have a problem. Also, I've so far not been able to get optical-out to work. If you have been, let me know.
- I've not really been able to test the onboard readi controller yet. I might get there once
- Some people report to have a very good Q-Fan noise-reduction. I don't so I think this is about proper BIOS-settings.
- You can use cpudynd to scale the speed of the CPU.. this is really nice since the temp drops really fast instantly. You have to have cpufreq enabled in the kernel to use this. Also make sure that the governor is "userspace"
In total, the board runs really stable and very cool. Except for the onboard-sound issues, I haven't come across a single problem. I really can recommend this board.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.5-gentoo (gentoo-dev-sources)
Distribution:
Gentoo 2004.1
This board runs like a bat out of hell! 3200+ AMD64 1Gb RAM and a single SATA drive.
This board came with an Alienware computer. 32-bit XP was blue screening frequently. We had problems with massive I/O to the SATA HDD, but we flashed the BIOS with the latest image and it fixed that problem.
We built the kernel with support for SATA Promise and VIA82xxx ATA. Recognizes SATA drive as sda and hde.
The onboard 3com LAN is supported under sk98lin. It wasn't autodetected during install, but we modprobed the driver and built into final kernel.
This board ran cool, the chip ran cool and like I said earlier, IT IS FAST! I've never seen C compilation go as fast as I've seen this one.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.x
Distribution:
Suse 9.1 Professional x86_64
I'm running the VIA sata controller with raid 0 ntfs. My linux drive is on the promise SATA controller. My first issue is that when the kernel initialises, it throws sectoridnotready and ide0 reset errors and refuses boot. I don't have a fix for this yet...so avoid windows raid.
Onboard sound disabled
Onboard lan disabled
Compatibility with the board is nice...as long as you use a 2.6 kernel. 2.4 never really worked for me.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.10
Distribution:
Gentoo
For those who want the PATA-Promise - sata_promise now supports PATA.
The Patch should be included in 2.6.11. If you use 2.6.10, you can use a patch located here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/118218/
I don't think it will work with older kernels (though I have not tried)
Apply it against 2.6.10 (Should work for vanilla, tried gentoo-dev-sources too), recompile and your pata-devices should appear as /dev/sdX
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