On Sunday 04 November 2001 16:40, David A. Riggs wrote:
I'm the not-so-proud owner of an Abit KT7A-RAID. It has plauged me since the day I purchased it with instability and poor disk IO performance. It uses the Via KT133A chipset, which guarantees you many headaches if you plan to use an SBLive with it. Both Via and Creative admit that a problem exists between them, but neither company accepts responsibility. Search groups.google.com for kt7a and sblive if you don't trust my advice alone.
There is an excellent KT7 FAQ at: http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm
And a KG7 FAQ here (I know nothing about the KG7): http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/kg7kr7faq.htm
I'm not sure about SuSE 7.3, but the stock 7.1 2.4.0 kernel had no support for the Via KT133A...this may be something to look into as well.
With SuSE 7.2 I had NOT been able to get my PlexStor 4832 CDRW to work properly because of the VIA NorthBridge problem. It would die at aroung 60MB at every attempt, and that was without any sound being active. All I could do with it was read CDs, not write them. Last night I did a clean install of SuSE 7.3 Pro, using the 'install almost everything' option. I was stunned. SuSE installed its standard 2.4.10-4GB modular kernel and YaST2 recognized everything correctly by autodetection: BJC-620 and the Iomega Zip250 connected on my single parallel port, monitor, wheel mouse, keyboard, NIC card, and the PlexStore CDRW. I had to make only two adjustments: the routing table to correctly connect this workstation to the firewall-dhcp box (also known as my wife's PC :), and I had to add a+rw to the permissions of the /media/cdrecorder file. I just burned a 398MB backup CD using XCD-Roast. No doubt about it. SuSE 7.3 is their finest release for clean installs. (This is after I did an experimental 'upgrade' using the 'allmost everyting' option, which turned out to be a total disaster.). Jerry