On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:52:01AM +0800, Pong wrote:
> on the AMD Athlon platform with the nForce2 board chipset,

I got the idea that nForce == gamers. Am I wrong? :)

> (aside from SATA, they all have your standard built-in hardware for 4 USB
> 2.0 ports, 2 Firewire ports, Fast-Ethernet ports (the Epox and Asus have
> two LAN ports ideal for routers), 6-channel sound set (Asus and Abit
> have something called SoundStorm which should be better than your
> Creative Labs Audigy1.)

I'll be paying for a sound system nobody will hear in the server room -
unless I start up mpg321 from the ssh console to wake people up. :)
 
> usually, ppl getting a board with SATA use 2 Western Digital Raptors with
> 8MB cache each in RAID 0 or 1 configuration.  the SATA chipset common
> among these boards is the Silicon Image SiL3112A/SiL3114 chipset.
> should be working under linux 2.4.x.
> experimental still in 2.6

I wonder who has a working SATA + Linux setup locally... besides Orly
and his high end box :)

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