Reliable Athlon 64 motherboards
Bryan J. Smith
b.j.smith at ieee.org
Wed Mar 22 13:28:05 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:08 -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> I am using am ABIT AN8 SLI motherboard with an X2 4400+. I have run both i386
> and x86_64 FC4 on it. I have had a problem with the gigabit intereface but
> otherwise it works fine.
Yeah, there are far too many MAC+PHY combinations out there that are
fully supported. If it's an nForce, I find loading nVidia's "nvnet"
solves it in every case. Then after a few more kernel updates, the MAC
+PHY combo is better supported by GPL drivers.
> The minor problem is that I needed to boot the installer with "nodmraid" for
> the ide disks to be recognized correctly. Once installed, FC5 works
> as expected.
Go in the BIOS and _change_ the ATA configuration to "Non-RAID."
This plagues _all_ BIOSes these days -- AMD, Intel, nVidia, ViA, etc...
Too many boards ship with "FRAID logic turned on."
I found Intel ICH's 5-way setting to be the most confusing of all.
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Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance
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