Hmm..I have not used that hardware myself..but from the release notes,
it looks like it is supported (with a work around):
From:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE
-NOTES-U4-en.html
<snip>
Support for the Intel I/O Controller Hub (ICH8) southbridge chipset is
now available.
Note
If your system uses the ICH8 SATA controller and the BIOS is set to IDE
mode for the controller, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 will not
recognize the attached drives.
To work around this issue, enable the ICH8 controller in AHCI mode from
within the BIOS. Red Hat plans to fix this issue in future releases of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For more information, please refer to Red Hat Knowledge Base at the
following URL:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/
</snip>
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Drew Weaver
Sent: December 6, 2006 10:12 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: RE: CentOS 4 and Intel D965 motherboards
Would it be possible for CentOS to release an installer for 4.4
that uses a newer kernel, or maybe the same kernel patched to work with
ICH8? It would be a great boon to a great many folks I'd imagine. At the
very least ensure that CentOS 5 works with ICH8?
-Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John R Pierce
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:40 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: CentOS 4 and Intel D965 motherboards
> If it's not too late, return the motherboard, get something else.
>
> My personal experience with Intel's desktop motherboards is that they
> work most of the time for most of the people.
thats been the exact opposite of my experiences with Intel branded
motherboards. They've been consistently well engineered, and well
built, have very good aftermarket support (BIOS upgrades and drivers are
still available for nearly every board they've ever made, and they are
MUCH better documented than the typical taiwan stuff). Intel has had
a few funky chipsets that NO motherboards could fix (anything that used
RDRAM, and worse, the chipsets that used RD->SDRAM bridges like the
i810), but otherwise I've found them very compatible. I do try and
avoid the chipsets with onboard graphics.
I've never seen ANY documentation like
ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/lt/D5601702US.pdf (for the
DP965LT, a current mainstream performance board I'd strongly consider
using for a Core 2 Duo desktop) from any taiwan board maker. Note they
actually give power specifications for the board, thermal design
guidelines, etc. Detailed errata in
ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/lt/D6333603US.pdf (ever seen
errata on a taiwan board? muahaahahahaha, right!)
RHEL/CentOS 4 is getting a bit long in the tooth, and support for the
latest hardware is somewhat lagging, this can be an issue with any new
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