Robert, When you say RAID, are you talking software or through the BIOS of an onboard controller? I would recommend using software RAID setup during installation. I have put a similar system together, based on the same chipset, actually just the Fatality version (wasn't worth the extra money, IMO). Everything that I used worked, including the sound. ;) I was doing software based mirroring between two drives. -Alain. P.S. Sorry for the top posting.

-----Original Message----- From: Robert Leftwich [mailto:suse@rtl.fmailbox.com] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:09 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] ASUS A8N-SLI Premium supported?

I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, Athlon dual core 4800+ with 4GB ram + 4 SATA2 drives I need to setup as a server (basically postgres + apache/lighttpd). Ideally the 4 drives would be RAID (right now anything with redundancy would be acceptable). I've installed FreeBSD on it but it doesn't support the full 4GB ram, Ubuntu64 supports the ram (tested using the LiveCD), but fails when attempting to format the drives using any raid mode at all and fails to boot if installed in non-raid mode on one of the drives.

Has anyone successfully installed Suse on the same setup? If so, does the SMP kernel take full advantage of the dual core?

(Note that I don't care if sound or any other non-cli related h/w doesn't work, I just want a basic, reliable server that I can administer remotely).

Thanks

Robert

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