Hello Pinchas. I would suggest that you should simply buy a SATA PCI (or PCI-E) card, they cost about ~100 NIS and most of them are supported under Linux (specially the Silicon Image based cards), then connect your hard drive to the card and install your favorite Linux.
Thanks Hetz On 2/6/07, Pinchas Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Linuxers, As a long time Linux user, I decided to replace my old faithful Pentium 3 computer to a newer x86_64 bit one. I bought a computer with INTEL PD945 3.4M DUAL CORE processor, MSI P965 NEO-F 7.1 motherboard, 160GB SATA2 hard drive, LG GSA 12N DVD drive and a GF 7300GS PCIE graphics card. This computer works fine with Windows XP home and Solaris 10, but fails to function with any Linux OS. Only lately did I discover that the MSI board is to blame. It has a JMicron chip on it that somehow does not allow the the DVD drive to load Linux on the system. After many hours of browsing the net, I found that this problem exists in many new motherboards including MSI , ASUS and ABIT. It seems that adding an IDE to SATA converter or IDE to USB converter, or using a SATA DVD can solve the problem. Can you please direct me to a vendor of a suitable converter or DVD, or, as a last resort recommend a suitable 64 bit computer that will work with Linux and windows XP. waiting eagerly for your emails, TIA, Pinchas Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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