Motherboard and SATA questions
Richard Hubbell
richard.hubbell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 05:49:05 UTC 2005
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:07:05 -0500, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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You might want to look at a recent thread on the linux-kernel list
discussing a SATA config. Hardware specifics were mentioned.
Richard
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