Motherboard and SATA questions

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Mon Jan 31 01:07:05 UTC 2005


I am in the process of collecting the parts for a system that will run
Fedora Core 3.  One of the things I am not certain about is using SATA
type drives.  Have always used IDE drives or SCSI drives in previous
systems.  The motherboard I am looking at is an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe.  I am
planning on using several Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model
6B300S0 drives as well as Plextor Serial ATA 12X DVD+/-RW Drive, Model
PX-712SA/SW drive.

Three things I have not been able to find out yet, first will this
motherboard support a total of 8 SATA drives? 

Second has anyone else used Fedora Core 3 (or 2) with this board
successfully?  Plan is to boot from the SATA drive, I don't plan on
having any IDE drives in this box. And I have seen some issues with SATA
drives reported here.

Third, will I be able to boot the system from the Plextor SATA DVD
drive?

I am currently not planning on using any of the raid options with this
system.  



ASUS "P5GD2 Deluxe" 915P Chipset Motherboard For Intel LGA 775 CPU
-RETAIL

Model#  P5GD2 DELUXE  Item # N82E16813131506 
Specifications:
Supported CPU: LGA775 Pentium 4(HT)
Chipset: i915P + ICH6R
FSB: 800/533MHz
RAM: 4x DIMM Dual Channel DDR2 400/533 Max 4GB
Slots: 1x PCI-Ex16, 3x PCI-Ex1, 3x PCI
Ports: 2x PS/2,1x LPT,8x USB2.0(Rear 4),1x 1394,1x RJ45,1x IEEE1394a,1x
WLAN,SPDIF Out,Audio Ports
IDE: 1x ATA 100 up to 2 Devices, 2x ATA 133 up to 4 Devices by ITE 8212F
with RAID 0/1/0+1
SATA: 4x SATA with RAID 0/1, 4x SATA by Silicon 3114R with RAID
0/1/0+1/5
Onboard Audio: C-Media 8-CH
Onboard LAN: Marvell 88E8053 GbE, 54 Mbps 802.11g
Onboard 1394: 2x 1394
Form Factor: ATX



-- 
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com

You definitely intend to start living sometime soon. 




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