I'm currently looking to build a cost effective web/email server.
I'm considering using an ASUS A8N-E with an x939 Athlon 64 x2 3800+ 2Ghz processor. I'm also hoping to use RAID-1 over dual SATA2 drives. In researching gentoo and SATA2, I've come across numerous problems that people are experiencing with the 2005.1-r1live-cd install and the sata_nv driver and SATA in general. Has this been fixed? Does anyone have any advice for me? Has anyone successfully installed on SATA2 drives running with an nforce4 chipset mobo? If they haven't, were they able to get SATA2 drives running as SATA1? Or at least SATA1 from a fresh install of the 2005.1-r1 AMD64 livecd? I noticed a lot of problems with the ASUS A8N-VM/CSM which is why I'm investigatin the A8NE.
If this has already been discussed, I apologize in advance... I'm new to the list and couldn't find what I was looking for in the archives.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. -- [email protected] mailing list
