I have an Asus nforce2 board with the SII chipset. I actually just swapped the drive out for a PATA drive. There are some mysterious lockups happening with my system, And a look at the LKML shows that a few SII owners are having the same issue. While my lock ups have been reduced with the SII controller turned off, they haven't gone away. will try some more stuff today.
also seems there is a work around for WD and Maxtor drives in the driver that seriously cuts down performance with the Seagate drives. (though I think this can be changed with a option at boot time). My advice is to look over the LKML. On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 05:06, Mark Watts wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Get one with a Silicon Image chipset - those should work with 2.4.22 - other > chips (Intel ICH5) work with 2.6.x to some degree but you really want to be > using libata when thats finished. > > Mark. > > > OK i have a seriious question for you guys. I want a new mobo w/ serial > > ata. Two questions how good is the support on linux *right now* and is > > there any special controller or board which will definitely work w/ mdk > > 9.2. I'm thinking about getting an ASUS A7V8X > > - -- > Mark Watts > Senior Systems Engineer > QinetiQ TIM > St Andrews Road, Malvern > GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/ZYESBn4EFUVUIO0RAteIAKDa7sq1vTNMWOv9A3CxblyDx0I3agCg+q7I > +NfeE3KaziweRKdBA2UqOvk= > =bOcx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
