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On Sunday 30 January 2011 09:58:21 Dale wrote: |
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> Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> > Thanks for all the input, Dale and Volker! |
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> > |
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> > I think I settle for a GA-880GMA-UD2H ([1]). Basically, it's the little |
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> > brother of what Volker proposed. I need a Micro-ATX board. Originally, I |
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> > ruled out all Asrock and Gigabyte boards because because they usually |
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> > come with 2 PCI slots, 1 PCIe x16 and 1 PCIe x1. I rather want another |
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> > PCIe 1x instead of the second PCI slot. Asus, Foxconn and MSI offer |
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> > that. |
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> > |
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> > This particular Gigabyte board, however, offers a second PCIe 4x (in a |
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> > physical x16 slot). I guess that's even better. Although the arrangement |
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> > on the board will make it dificult to use two larger extension cards in |
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> > both big PCIe slots. |
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> > |
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> > Regards, |
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> > Florian Philipp |
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> > |
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> > [1] |
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> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128445&Tpk=GA-8 |
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> > 80GMA-UD2H |
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> When you get ready to build your kernel, check out this link. |
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> http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-880GMA-UD2H+rev2.0 |
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> That should tell you what drivers it needs and save you some headaches |
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> trying to figure them out. |
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> Nice mobo too. ;-) |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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that side is - of course - wrong. |
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The jmicron controller works fine with the ahci driver. |
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05:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA |
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Controller (rev 02) |
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Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard |
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Kernel driver in use: ahci |
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