Hi Everyone, Since placing the question to the mailing list about the Epox EP-8RDA3+Socket A motherboard with a Nforce chipset and SATA support, I thought I better let people know how I went..
First up I tried the board with SATA drives, and installed Mandrake 9.1, I had 2 SATA 80Gig Seagates installed, which I setup Linux Software RAID1 on.. I thing that I can say the Mandrake installer is great for setting up Linux software RAID.. as well as the XFS file system.. Although Mandrake was able to install on the SATA and boot off the drives, which were seen as /dev/hde /dev/hdg the problem was performance, by default DMA was disabled on the drives.. trying to enable the DMA lead to instant data corruption.. The Second most obvious and serious notable problem with the drives was the heat coming from both the drives, the Seagate SATA 80Gig drives were running extremely hot.. I hope this is not something that we are going to see from Seagate in the future.. I hate hot running drives. The drives were so hot one could barely touch them. Since I have rejected both drives and sent them back due the heat problems, and replaced them with the Standard Seagate ATA 80Gig drives, which ran very quick on the Epox motherboard, and the whole system ended up being a great system, and very linux compatible but without the SATA drives.. maybe give it 6 months for SATA stuff.. Cheers Mark On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 09:32, Mark Williamson wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Just looking at a Nforce2 motherboard Epox EP-8RDA3+Socket A > motherboard, does this have any problems with Mandrake 9.1?. Is there > anyone running sata drives with Mandrake 9.1, are they stable, can one > just use a standard Kernel that comes with Mandrake.? > > The board looks good from it's Web site link > http://web.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8RDA3plus&lang=1 > > But if it don't work with Mandrake it ain't much good. > > Cheers > Mark > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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