Hello Philip Webb, > > OTOH, I do have a couple of words of caution about the Motherboard. > > The new Intel chipsets do not provide an IDE controller > > so motherboard manufacturers have to go get a 3rd party IDE/PATA > > controller if they want that support on their Intel motherboards. > > My new HDD wb SATA : does that need an IDE controller ? > There wb a DVD/CD-RW drive too : perhaps that might need one ? > It's not an issue I've encountered before. > > > Most of the manufacturers seem to have gone with JMicron's controller, > > but my experience with it so far has been rather frustrating. > > Supposedly its drivers have been in the mainline kernel since 2.6.18 > > but it's been pretty flaky for me when I had to deal with it
I have an Asus P5B-E with the JMicron controller. I used in only for a couple of DVD-RW drives and have had no problems at all. My hard drives are all SATA and while there is a SATA port on the JMicron controller, I haven't used it as there are six other SATA ports on this board, on the Intel controller. -- Neil Bothwick Don't hate yourself in the morning, sleep until noon.
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