-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johnny Stork wrote: > I am about to put together a new Linux system with a removable > SATA cage for demo'ing various systems. I have not used any mATX > boards, or and AMD 64bit processors, so wanted to check if anyone > Had any experiences with any decent mATX boards and Dual Core > S939 64 bit Athlons? > > 1: Will the SATA-II support on any board work with my existing SATA-I > based drive cage? I believe they are backwards compatible (of course > They will run at SATA-I speeds). >
> 2: I will be running/installing 32bit distros, so are their any issues > To be aware of running on any of the DC 64 bit AMD's My laptop is a 64 bit Turion, but I am running a 32 bit distro (Kubuntu) with no issues. IMO 32 bit distros are still the better bet > > 3: Any particular board/cpu combo which has shown great success? > Meaning right out of the box support on most distros? Don't know. I don't try too many distros any more. I just stick with what I know well (basically Debian based Distros). > > 4: Will Dual Core AMD's work on all s939 boards? I have not tried. When I bought my dual core system (from Memory Express) I made sure to ask. > > I am trying to avoid having to futz with too many after-install driver > issues so would prefer something that most distros would > support, on install. The distros I would be running would > Include: Well the problem is not with the distros, but with the kernel. Red Hat has some really funky kernels that probably have the widest hardware support, but are the hardest to work with (if, though usually when, you need to customize them). > > Distos: > > CentOS > RHES 4 > Suse 10.1 > Fedora Core 5 > These all look similar. I am not sure why you would be demoing closely related distros, but you should not have many problems (3 Red Hat distros? Why bother?) > This is what I am looking at so far: > > MB's: > > ASUS A8N-VM/CSM mATX S939 > MSI K8NGM2-L mATX S939 > ASRock 939NF4G-SATA2 mATX S939 I personally prefer ASUS and MSI. Over the years these boards have tended to be more reliable with fewer quirks. > > CPU: > > AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core Processor S939 > Manchester 2GHZ 512KBX2 90NM Retail Box > I have the 4400+ (X2) with 1Mb cache per core. It is a smoking processor. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEoFJ/wRXgH3rKGfMRAjENAJ0S/1EwzrYq2x3SkXjkAUG1EYQjNgCdE8Kd WIH3z+vpXjZ5x4L7wLNB3WU= =vl5m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
