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Although not for everybody, this board, which I would recommend for a (reasonably light) server, works well out of the box with linux.

Since it is based around Intel chips, performance is impressive and driver support very good in Linux, and though I never took the opportunity to try the RAID features, both the Intel and Promise chipsets are supported as far as I know.

With hyperthreading enabled in BIOS, and using an SMP kernel, the 4 virtual CPUs were detected without problem.

The IDE controller uses the ICH5 chipset (using the 'Intel PIIXn' chipset under a 2.4 kernel) and runs fine with DMA enabled.

The e1000 driver worked without problem for the Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit LAN network card, and sound worked fine using the ac97 and intel8x0 drivers, even with 5.1 surround.

AGP was not a problem with my nVidia Geforce4 Ti4400. In addition I was able to view the onboard temperature sensors and control the fans with lm-sensors.

All in all, a great motherboard for Linux in my opinion...


The following is the full lspci output for the board:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM)
0000:03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)