On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:54:05 -0600 Christopher Bottaro <cbottaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mar 14, 2004, at 1:41 AM, Randy Kelsoe wrote: > > I am using the GigaByte GA-7N400 Pro2 MB, which uses the Nvidia > > nforce2 chipset. I'm not using any of the Nvidia drivers. This mobo > > uses the RealTek 8169 onboard gigabit lan, and not the nforce2 lan. > > I tried using the Nvidia drivers for the onboard sound, and they had > > > > problems. Anaconda selected the intel8x0 driver for the onboard > > video, and that works much better than the Nvidia driver. This mobo > > has worked well with RH9 (but needed a later kernel), and has worked > > well with FC1 right out of the box. It's almost twice the price of > > the GA-7VT600-L, but it has SATA, RAID, and Dual Channel memory. I'm > > not using the RAID, but SATA works (though not at full speed yet), > > and dual channel memory is about 50% faster than single channel > > mode. There is also a cheaper model that does not have the RAID and > > SATA, and has a 100base T NIC. > > excuse my naivety, but is dual channel memory and hardware raid OS > transparent? dual-channel RAM, yes. Hardware RAID, no -- you will need to tweak your kernel for that. > i'm looking to build a new computer also. i can't decide if its going > to be a windows box (for games) or a linux system. if i can afford > it, i want SATA, RAID 0, and dual channel memory. if the hardware > RAID is transparent to the OS, i'd rather do that. Well, you can have both (a dual boot system), that's what I have here. I have a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, which has dual-channel mem and onboard SATA RAID. I personally don't use SATA RAID yet, but I've read reports on this list of people using it successfully. > a couple of questions. > > 1) how do i know if dual channel memory is working? is it OS > transparent, or do i need to install drivers? In my case, BIOS prints useful diagnostics during boot. > 2) "but SATA works (though not at full speed yet)", how do you know > what speed its working at? hdparm -T /dev/hdX hdparm -t /dev/hdX > 3) how do you know if you got the RAID setup properly? Can't help you with this, sorry. > btw, i heard nforce2 has issues with linux: > http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/ > opinions? My mobo uses this chipset. Network can only be achieved with NVidia drivers, but works well (there is a reverse-engineered GPL driver in the wild, but it is still beta AFAIK). ALSA supports nforce2 just fine (actually better than NVidia). HTH Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
