Thanx to everybody that replied.
I bought the mother board and I'm currently running on that machine now.
The only problem I had was making sure the NIC and the soundcard didn't
conflict with the other hardware, after I got that worked out, the machine
is up and running. Quite I might add! I didn't have any problems that I
had with isntalling Mandrake 8 this time that I Did the first time.
It may be me as well, but it seems that the drives are accessing a lot
faster on the Promise controller then they did previously with out! And
to think I could add another 5 IDE devices if I choose! :0)
//MACHINE
accounts: 20
bogomips: 1710.48
cpu: AMD 6:AMD-Athlon(tm)-Processor/857
disk: 46463
kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk
key: 95321
memory: 255.921875
method: machine-update version 0.16
owner: 206266-58430
uniqueid: 97326857
uptime: 18:03
users: 1
When I bought the processor, I asked for the 850 THUNDERBIRD, but the
woman gave me the DURON. Since she didn't charge me the THUNDERBIRD
price, I may just keep the machine as it is.
Thanx for all the help everybody!
tdh
T. Holmes
Unixtechs.org
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* Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010518 08:05]:
| I'm in the midst of building a new machine and I'm trying to decide what
| motherboard I should go after.
|
| I'm going with a AMD K7 850, (For $105, it's a great price! :0) so now I
| need a motherboard to put it in of course. Upon looking at motherboards,
| I saw the ASUS A7V133 and the A7Pro.
|
| Well the A7V133 has an onboard Promise controller. It's the PCI-ATA100,
| it also has 4 x PCI and 1 x PCI/AMR. What I need to do is set the machine
| up with a SoundBlaster 16, and two NICs. Provided I can work the shared
| IRQs so there aren't any IRQ conflicts, will Mandrake 8.0 have a problem
| with the PCI-ATA100 controller?
|
| I like the A7V133 over the A7Pro for two reason. The A7V133 has 266/200
| FSB, the A7Pro only has 200 FSB. No big deal there, but the A7Pro only
| does UltraDMA/66. I have UltraDMA/100 drives so I would like to access
| an use that speed. Other wise I'd go with the A7Pro because one it's about
| $30 cheaper, and not having to worry about problems with that Promise
| Controller.
|
| Does anybody else know how this motherboard/IDE controller combination
| works with other distros? I like to frequently just install another
| distro on a spare drive just to see what it looks like. Thus far I've not
| come across anything that'd make me leave Mandrake, but I like knowing
| what's out there, and having some sort of knowledge of it.
|
| Any help would be really appreciated. And for those of you running this
| kind of hardware, your experience and or war stories are very welcomed!
| Thanks!
| tdh
|
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