On Sunday 30 January 2011 09:58:21 Dale wrote:
> Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Thanks for all the input, Dale and Volker!
> >
> > I think I settle for a GA-880GMA-UD2H ([1]). Basically, it's the little
> > brother of what Volker proposed. I need a Micro-ATX board. Originally, I
> > ruled out all Asrock and Gigabyte boards because because they usually
> > come with 2 PCI slots, 1 PCIe x16 and 1 PCIe x1. I rather want another
> > PCIe 1x instead of the second PCI slot. Asus, Foxconn and MSI offer
> > that.
> >
> > This particular Gigabyte board, however, offers a second PCIe 4x (in a
> > physical x16 slot). I guess that's even better. Although the arrangement
> > on the board will make it dificult to use two larger extension cards in
> > both big PCIe slots.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Florian Philipp
> >
> > [1]
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128445&Tpk=GA-8
> > 80GMA-UD2H
>
> When you get ready to build your kernel, check out this link.
>
> http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-880GMA-UD2H+rev2.0
>
> That should tell you what drivers it needs and save you some headaches
> trying to figure them out.
>
> Nice mobo too. ;-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
that side is - of course - wrong.
The jmicron controller works fine with the ahci driver.
05:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA
Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard
Kernel driver in use: ahci
