I would not dispute the speed of super IDE controller- it is hardly an issue on laptop, where seek time of drive is 20ms and sustained tranfer rate reaches 20 MB/s at its best even with the latest IBM drives. I did not notice any slowdown. Perhaps it is just a different meaning of words. To me if you can load and run RH7.3 on a 845 chipset then it works. The other issue is that since there is no direct support for 845 it runs slow. Is there anything in particular that you come across in the discussion forums related to the above chipset, which could potentially lead to unstable\unreliable system?
My apologies, ASUS is not really off stream, although the experience of the past makes me to stick with Intel made boards, which are not really the fastest but we get them for the same price as any other brands and they did not dissapoint us so far. Take it easy- Petr -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Kiblin Sent: 02 July 2002 17:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: AW: 7.2 or 7.3 support for Intel 845G At 01:56 PM 7/2/2002 +0100, you wrote: >My resolution is that on reasonably standard motherboards there should be no >problem with 845 chipsets when using RH7.3, however the ones off the >mainstream may have some glitches that should be overcome when the full 845 >support becomes available. > > >Hope it helps, > >Petr Kubecka 7.3 DOES NOT work on 845G chipsets, there are problems with the Super I/O controller. It loads and runs, but performance on the IDE chipset is terrible, around 2.8Mbs at best. Plus some other issue with the PCI bus that Alan and others discussed on the kernel mailing lists, and pointed to the vendor having to make a BIOS upgrade available to fix the issue. I wouldn't call the ASUS p4b533 motherboards off mainstream, the 845G on the Intel board doesn't work either, same issues. Tom _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
