On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 16:04 -0400, mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
I've got an athlon 1.1 system (obviously a few years old), and I think that the ASUS motherboard is on the way out.
I've use SuSE 9.3.
Is there anything in the way of motherboards that I should really avoid?
Is there any performance (or other) problem if I have one HD on the IDE bus and a new one on SATA? Would that arrangement confuse YaST? Not at all, just be careful which way around your BIOS sees them and
If I was GOING to go with one drive on each interface (haven't tried it yet, haven't got the board yet... just asking), is there a preferred distribution of the filesystem? Assuming the sata disc is the newer generation with 8mb cache and NCQ,
Yes, avoid buying another ASUS. I bought a A7V880 which is sorely regret. I have to underclock both memory and cpu to get it to be stable, It detects the CPU (2004+ which predates the board by about a year) as 1800+, it has problems with 8x AGP and ATi Radeon cards (both windows and linux), and their support doesn't reply at all. In contrast, the few questions I've had (wasn't even support questions, merely curiosity about things, like if I buy this board, will it work with my gear) were all answered thoroughly by Gigabyte support, and the board I bought myself (and all the ones I had clients buy) has serverd me very very well, and is now doing time for the parents. So I would always recommend Gigabyte. I'm shopping for one right now. that you don't switch them around in the boot sequence. But seeing as linux sees sata discs as /dev/sd... and IDE as /dev/hd... it won't be a problem. put your busier filesystems on it - /var /tmp swap ect. and the ones that don't work as hard on the slower disc. This really depends on your usage. On my workstation /var works very hard, while on my box at home, /home is where the heavy lifting is done. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com