I am in the process of collecting the parts for a system that will run Fedora Core 3. One of the things I am not certain about is using SATA type drives. Have always used IDE drives or SCSI drives in previous systems. The motherboard I am looking at is an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe. I am planning on using several Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model 6B300S0 drives as well as Plextor Serial ATA 12X DVD+/-RW Drive, Model PX-712SA/SW drive. Three things I have not been able to find out yet, first will this motherboard support a total of 8 SATA drives? Second has anyone else used Fedora Core 3 (or 2) with this board successfully? Plan is to boot from the SATA drive, I don't plan on having any IDE drives in this box. And I have seen some issues with SATA drives reported here. Third, will I be able to boot the system from the Plextor SATA DVD drive? I am currently not planning on using any of the raid options with this system. ASUS "P5GD2 Deluxe" 915P Chipset Motherboard For Intel LGA 775 CPU -RETAIL Model# P5GD2 DELUXE Item # N82E16813131506 Specifications: Supported CPU: LGA775 Pentium 4(HT) Chipset: i915P + ICH6R FSB: 800/533MHz RAM: 4x DIMM Dual Channel DDR2 400/533 Max 4GB Slots: 1x PCI-Ex16, 3x PCI-Ex1, 3x PCI Ports: 2x PS/2,1x LPT,8x USB2.0(Rear 4),1x 1394,1x RJ45,1x IEEE1394a,1x WLAN,SPDIF Out,Audio Ports IDE: 1x ATA 100 up to 2 Devices, 2x ATA 133 up to 4 Devices by ITE 8212F with RAID 0/1/0+1 SATA: 4x SATA with RAID 0/1, 4x SATA by Silicon 3114R with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 Onboard Audio: C-Media 8-CH Onboard LAN: Marvell 88E8053 GbE, 54 Mbps 802.11g Onboard 1394: 2x 1394 Form Factor: ATX -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx You definitely intend to start living sometime soon.
