nForce chipsets (was: Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?)
On Saturday 25 March 2006 15:59, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?': Norberto Bensa wrote: I did. Bought nForce4-based board. Got stuck with sata-II drives (lock-ups, crushes, out-of-sync, both in linux and in windows). It is a buggy chipset, has problems with nearly all sata-II drives (tried Seagate and Samsung) and nvidia does not care a sh*t... Odd, my nforce4 board has not encountered any issues since I bought it last year. It successfully drives my WD Raptors and SATA CD/DVD-RW. I've not been using dmraid, although the board is supposedly supported. Although, I do have to say that I prefer my Areca 1160 -- Battery backed-up cache so I can enable write caching, and real hw raid. It drives my 5 Hitachi 7K500s -- though the Hitachi actually ship with SATA-II disabled because they had issues with poor controller support and I have not used a real-mode OS to set them to use SATA-II, yet. (They are freakin' fast as is.) I occurs to me that perhaps the Raptors are also only using SATA-I, as well, I really don't know how to check that. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: nForce chipsets (was: Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?)
On Saturday 25 March 2006 22:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I occurs to me that perhaps the Raptors are also only using SATA-I, as well, I really don't know how to check that. They are. WD don't consider SATA-II controllers good enough yet for the Raptors. Plus no drive can max out a SATA-I bus yet, so why bother? -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: nForce chipsets (was: Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?)
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Odd, my nforce4 board has not encountered any issues since I bought it last year. It successfully drives my WD Raptors and SATA CD/DVD-RW. AFAIK, nForce4 does not have any problem with sata-I disks. And out of sata-II, WD are the only drives which work without problem (I did not know it before, just now I have read a few forums and mailing lists, full of complaints about sata-II nForce4). But with all other sata-II disks (Seagate, Hitachi, Maxtor, Samsung) nForce4 has really problems. Sometimes switching the drive to sata-I mode helps, sometimes not. But if you have WD, you are lucky... One more thing: the latest revision of nForce4 (which can be found on latest and rather expensive boards) has fixed it. Unfortunatelly, one can not know which chipset revision is used on a certain mobo, until you buy it, dismount cooler, and check chipset... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
