On 21 Oct 2005 at 14:03, Blastzone wrote: > > For what it's worth, I had a hell of a time with SATA & PATA drives in my > ASUS Pundit-R. > (250GB Maxtor midline SATA & NEC DVD-RW or ASUS DVD-RW drives) > > DMA acceleration would not work on either PATA DVD drive, some FC3 kernels > would segfault > on startup, Knoppix or Gentoo LiveCDs would not boot, and other problems. > > I dropped to a 160GB Seagate PATA drive, and aside from it filling up rather > quickly, all the > problems went away. That won't solve your problems, but 2 trips to ASUS RMA > and 4 months > didn't fix mine either...
Isn't it interesting that we see similar hardware that works for one guy, but not the next... The only dificulty I saw was during the Fedora install. It wouldn't let me assign a /music partition. I circumvented the problem by creating an LVM volume... go figure... Just to clarify, I have: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard (SIL SATA chip, dunno the version) Athlon 3200+ 512M RAM PATA DVD drive (dunno the brand or model, but it wasn't particularly expenive) 200GB PATA Seagate (I think... could be a Maxtor, I don't remember) 2-400 GB SATA Seagates HD-3000 PVR-250 PVR-250 MCE nVidia FX 5200 Running FC4 via Jarod's guide. The system is on the PATA drive, as is a 90GB /music partition. The last third of the PATA and both SATA's make an LVM volume of about 865GB for a /video partition formatted XFS. No problems so far... runs great. Been online for about a month continuously as a combined FE/BE... I don't use the HD-3000 right now. About 300GB recorded so far... when do you guys find time to watch all the stuff you record? Marvin
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