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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:21:21 -0600
From: Gary
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From: Stewart Watson
Hello all,
Well, I now have most of my Sush in place and very functional, just some minor tweaking left. ... Of course, now I plan to upgrade my motherboard and processor, just to give me a headache. So, I need some advice, as there are two ways to go.
1. A nice Asus A7V Socket with the 1gig Thunderbird chip.
2. Stay with Intel and a Pentium III with a nice Asus dual processor, say 700 or 800. Of course, if I go 800 or greater, I will have to change my SDram to 133s instead of current 100s..
I am currently running a PII 400 on a BX chipset.
Question is will SuSE operate okay with the T-bird AMD? Do I have to recompile or reinstall SuSE with either board? My plan was just to install the new board and processor, load up my APG and PCI cards, slap in the IDE HDs, etc, and be off and running .... or am I missing something here with respect to SuSE picking up new controllers, etc...
Anybody been there, done that ? Appreciate your thoughts.
Hi, I went down the route you describe. My original configuration was 400 meg PII with 256 PC 100 RAM on a BX board with hda 8.4 ATA33 and hdb 20 Gig ATA 66 drive. IDE CDr/w, LS120 USB Scanner (which never worked under Linux) and DVD Rom. Dual booting Win98 and Suse 7.0 Ended up with a KT7 Raid with the same memory, 900 Meg Thunderbird, added hde a 20 gig ATA100 HDD, changed CDr/w and scanner to SCSI. On initial switch on SuSe booted OK. I then had to play around with YAST1 and the configuration but there were no problems and at all times I had a usable system. hdparm has all three disks running at the appropriate ATA mode having enabled DMA in Yast2. FYI i have been running SuSe from 6.2 with no prior experience so if i thought there were no problems ;)))) Happy Xmas - treat yourself to the Athlon -- Stu "The specification said Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux"
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 19:37:14 -0600
From: Gary
Ended up with a KT7 Raid with the same memory, 900 Meg Thunderbird, added hde a 20 gig ATA100 HDD, changed CDr/w and scanner to SCSI. On initial switch on SuSe booted OK. I then had to play around with YAST1 and the configuration but there were no problems and at all times I had a usable system. hdparm has all three disks running at the appropriate ATA mode having enabled DMA in Yast2.
Stu, yes, this is exactily my situation too. Thanks so much for your info. I feel a lot better now<g> I will remember the ATA too in Yast2. <p> -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
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