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* on the Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:59:05PM +0100, Jarry said: |
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> Norberto Bensa wrote: |
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> >SATA VT8251 do not work on Linux. There are -very- experimental patches, |
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> >but I've not tried them myself. Return the board and buy anything else |
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> >that's not VIA based. |
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> I did. Bought nForce4-based board. Got stuck with sata-II drives |
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> (lock-ups, crushes, out-of-sync, both in linux and in windows). |
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> It is a buggy chipset, has problems with nearly all sata-II drives |
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> (tried Seagate and Samsung) and nvidia does not care a sh*t... |
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> Jarry |
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I have an ASRock 939NF4G-SATA2 nForce4 based motherboard. I put a WDC |
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WD1600JS-22M SATA II hard drive in the system. Everything has been |
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workinging perfectly. The drive is very fast and everything onboard |
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works. The system has been very stable. |
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The only issue I had with the board was that I couldn't get alsa to |
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work. So I was stuck with NVidia's OSS based nvsound. nvsound does |
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hardware mixing, though a lot of newer programs want alsa. So I |
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recompiled everything to do oss. Today I found a simple fix to get the |
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onboard audio to work by adding the ID to an alsa driver and recompile. |
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Now alsa is up and running. |
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I have had nothing but headaches with VIA and ALi in the past. |
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This ASRock board is a great value at < $75. |
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