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This is one of the last generation Socket A motherboard. Specially, it gets the "classical" nForce2 Ultra 400 NB but with the nForce2 Gigabit MCP SB.
> FW/IEEE1394A is controlled by a VIA VT6307 chip
> Gigabit Ethernet pass throught the south bridge and has a PHY made by Cicada : model CIS8201. At the date of february 2005 it works as an 10/100 ethernet card thanks to the "forcedeth" drivers. Gigabit is being implemented after Nvidia gave out some tech specs.
01:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
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Here goes some informations from dmesg:
Linux version 2.6.10
DMI 2.2 present.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfba70, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus ff [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at 0000:00:00.0
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: PS2++ Logitech MX Mouse on isa0060/serio1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE2-U400R: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
NFORCE2-U400R: chipset revision 163
NFORCE2-U400R: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE2-U400R: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE2-U400R: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a3) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.30.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01695:100f bound to 0000:00:04.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49853 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 47385
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 438M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
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I haven't used all of the features that this board offers.
The nvidia-agp module manages the NB.
I've set up sound with alsa : i have to load the snd-intel8x0 module to make it work.
As said before "forcedeth" does the work nicely as far as you don't need the full potential of the GbE.
I haven't benchmarked the USB ports, but they take my usb key with the ehci-hcd module.
I'm waiting for the really new and fast SATA HDD to test the "SiI 3114" and "NFORCE2-U400R" drivers.
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