Does the BE6-II supports 133Mhz Bus?
--- tazmun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could go with one of Abit's BE6 series......they
> have a total of 4
> connectors for EIDE.....the second 2 connectors are
> an onboard High Point
> Technologies controller that although it is not true
> SCSI sets itself up
> that way.....depending on the board you buy(BE6, BE6
> II, or BE6 II rev 2
> with 100 ata and supposedly raid support of some
> sort) Personally I have
> used the BE6 II and had no difficulties setting it
> up in Linux initially.
> I've never really gotten all that far with Linux yet
> though so really can't
> say how well it works out as a long term solution.
> The SCSI ports are fine
> for hard drives but I wouldn't run any CD roms with
> them. For windows base
> OS's I usually formated and installed the original
> OSon the regular EIDE
> interfaces to avoid errors that have been known to
> occur on the HPT
> controller interface. Although after recent bios
> flashes the reliability
> has gone way up and I did format and install WIN ME
> directly from the HPT
> interface. There may be a work around for
> this....but if you install Linux
> on a different interface other then you are planning
> to actually use big
> problems occur since Linux names drive names
> differently then Windows and
> the controller drives start with "hde" instead of
> "hda". As far as the
> latest version with supposed RAID support if I
> remember right it was
> discussed on this group somewhat that some of Abits
> motherboards RAID is not
> true Raid and only works on window based boxes.
> Whether this causes any
> other problems if just used with out the
> raid(assuming it can be switched
> off somehow) I don't know and I have never had the
> opportunity to try this
> latest board of the BE6 series.
>
> Tazmun
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pauwel Demeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
>
>
> > The problem is there are no MB's who have more
> than 2 IDE-connectors (as
> far
> > as I know, so the best is getting an extra card
> with again two
> > IDE-connectors on it)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: OOzy Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] A good Motherboard
> > Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > Anyone knows a good motherboard that works fine
> with
> > Linux and has more than two IDEs (because I have 2
> > hard drives, CD, CDRW, and a zip drive, so I need
> more
> > than 2 IDEs)
> >
> > OOzy
> >
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> > OOzy
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