I hope to upgrade to one of the new 800 MHz motherboards later this year. I'm happy with my Gigabyte GA-8IHXP motherboard but it needa RDRAM and messing with RDRAM was an expensive mistake. Thanks Bob Cochran On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 12:32, Herbert Rutledge wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:16, Gustave wrote: > > > Is anyone using the new Serial ATA drives with RH 9? > > Howdy. > > > Looking to make sure some people have had some success before dumping the money > > on one. > > Got a new motherboard with the Intel 875 north bridge and ICH5 south > bridge. The two PATA drives from the old box were outfitted with > PATA/SATA adapters and plugged into the two SATA ports. > > Originally used a Rawhide kernel to get the box up and running because > it had the ICH5 SATA stuff the drivers for the gigabit Ethernet in the > north bridge. > > Tried the 2.4.20-18.9 errata kernel, and the box booted perfectly. Hard > drives were detected and configured to use DMA. The Ethernet was > detected and configured. > > There were no ICH5 drivers for lm_sensors. However, a CVS checkout from > the development branch of lm_sensors took care of that. > > In short, everything works. > > > Is SATA built into the stock RH kernels? > > For ICH5 and kernel 2.4.20-18.9, at least, yes. > > > Any performance feedback from anyone using one? > > Slightly faster, according to hdparm. > > > > -train -- Need help with computer hardware or software? I can take care of it in your home at very reasonable cost. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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