Hi all, I am currently planning to set up a dual Opteron based machine as a server machine (for quite different services) for a school's network. Tyan's NVIDIA "nForce Professional 2200" based main board "Thunder K8SE 2892G3NR" [1] has come into closer consideration, yet. My questions regarding this main board or chipset would be: - Is there anyone on this list who uses this main board (or another board that is based on the same chipset) running Linux (or even especially SuSE-Linux-9.3_x86-64)? - If so, can you please tell me about your experience? Are there any pitfalls (e.g. components that tend to make problems when running Linux)? - Especially: How well does the builtin S-ATA-II controller run? Is SuSE-9.3_x86-64 installable on pure S-ATA disks connected to this controller? - Is my assumption right, that the RAID the builtin S-ATA-II controller is capable of, is no real hardware RAID but a driver emulated RAID? So my solution would be to use real software RAID (level 0+1) instead which shouldn't impact performance much as I don't run the computing intensive RAID 5. I would be very glad if anyone can give me some information about this board or chipset - especially about the S-ATA-II controller. Many thanks in advance! Kind regards, Steffen [1] ftp://ftp.tyan.com/datasheets/d_s2892_100.pdf ftp://ftp.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2892_102.pdf