I was a little nervous of leaving the Intel chipsets behind, but it seems to me that VIA/AMD have a lot to offer now. Setup the kt7r with agp video and 4 pci devices. Everything went in smoothly and no IRQ problems to sort out. Abit Soft III is very nice and thankfully included the ability to disable the hpt controllers which they had neglected to offer in the past. I am runnng under rh6.2 with 2.2.17 kernel. The duron with pencil trick went right to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ran kernel compiles for 18 straight hours @51c degrees under a modest heatsink with zero issues. Since I don't need that kind of horsepower, I clocked it back to default to run nice and cool, 38C. (Stuff I found out which I wish I knew before I started--For those who may be about to do this, an unsuccessfully unlocked cpu will cut out and die if you try to change the FSB (this surprised me) or the multiplier. When you are successfull, it will reboot at any setting it is capable of reaching. And if you are doing the pencil trick, make sure to go over and over the spot until it completely covered and you have built up enough graphite in the gap. If you are timid, or sloppy, you won't get a reliable unlock.) How can AMD make chips that run that hot? An intel CPU pushed past 40C is going to die sooner or later. For $200, this combo seems like a true best buy. Only time will tell now how reliable it is in the long-run. But so far I am impressed. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Davies [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 3:51 AM > To: Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards > Subject: [LINUX-ABIT] Abit KT7 and KT7 RAID > > Searched back in my list archives, and see there's been some discussion of > HPT370 and it's RAID features before. > > Now I've been considering the Asus A7V Tbird/Duron mobo, which is the new > servers at work will have, for an upgrade for my home machine (now the BP6 > is on it's > last chance reliable SMP or it's out). > > However reading an article comparing the A7V against the KT7 and KT7-RAID > from Abit, they would seem to have an edge. I like having an ISA slot. > But > this is the same mag (Personal Computer World) which gave glowing reviews > of > the BP6, and failed to mention all the slot restrictions (shared IRQs, > busmastering etc). I presume I'd need Andre's IDE patch, unless I go with > a > 2.4 kernel. > > So is anyone running the KT7 or KT7-RAID? Any gotchas, or > recommendations? > > If I bought this board would I be happy, or would I kick myself for > falling > for the same trick twice? > > Rob > > > -- > =- To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the -= > =- body of "unsubscribe linux-abit". -= -- =- To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the -= =- body of "unsubscribe linux-abit". -=
