On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:49 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 15:04, Rajesh Rajani wrote: > > Last month I got myself a Core 2 Duo E6600 (Rs. 16,500/-) with a > > DG965RY mobo (Rs. 7,300/-) and 1 GB DDR2-533 RAM (Rs. 4,750/-). All > > from Lamington Road.
> > This motherboard has 1 IDE and 4 SATA ports. The IDE is powered by > > the Marvell PATA chipset which is not yet very well supported in the > > Linux world so when you connect a CD/DVD drive here, the installation > > doesn't find the installation CD/DVD. I've tried Knoppix 5.0.1, > > Ubuntu 6.06 and Suse 10.1 64-bit. > > Aww then this board is pretty useless to me since I need atleast 2 IDE > channels. I have 3 PATA disks and 1 SATA disk! You can install a add on card. It seems the new crops of mobos have one IDE channel to accommodate CD/DVD ROMS/Writers. The same is true for the newer notebooks. -- akk -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
