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I have to say that this motherboard works great and I can say without doubt that this is the best mother I ever had (and I've bought more expensive motherboards). It comes with a lot of things, including a 'universal' memory card/stick reader (sorry but I still didn't check if it worked with linux).
You can find it's home page here: http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=256 and it is one of the few manufacturers supporting linux. Well, at least, linux is listed as compatible (and FreeBSD as well!!!).
Very nice product and I really recomend it.

Galik

A note about SATA. SATA works well on this board but only after I fiddled about a bit :) I don't use libata and sata_via,sata_sil because I get only about 2-3 Mpb rom hdparm -t so instead I disabled these items in the kernel and instead used BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=y
in my .config.

Note: SATA1 and SATA2 are controlled by the VIA8237 south bridge chip and SATA3 and SATA4 by the Sil3112 controller. I could only get my SATA drive detected on SATA3 and SATA4 channels I could not get the VIA82CXXX controller to detect SATA1 and SATA2 drives. Also there is a long pause at boot up because I only have one drive attached to SATA3 and the kernel seems to wait for ages trying to access the missing SATA4 drive before giving up. However now my SATA drive works well although I only get 50Mbs rather than the 150Mbs I was hoping for.