Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-06-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:53 pm, frankieh wrote: My question is: Will the chipset itself (nforce2) run ok on mandrake 9.2 and 10 ??? Yep. I have been using a NForce2 (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) mobo since 9.0 and it works great. 9.1 needed to come out to use the onboard LAN,

Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-06-01 Thread frankieh
John Richard Smith wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:53 pm, frankieh wrote: My question is: Will the chipset itself (nforce2) run ok on mandrake 9.2 and 10 ??? Yep. I have been using a NForce2 (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) mobo since 9.0 and it works great. 9.1 needed to come out

Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-05-31 Thread Jon Jennings
frankieh wrote: Also of interest to me is the SATA raid as I'd like to setup future servers to use striping/mirroring, but only if its software transparent. (So I mean is the RAID provided by these boards the same as pluggin in a SCSI raid controller such that linux will then see the drives as

Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-05-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:53 pm, frankieh wrote: My question is: Will the chipset itself (nforce2) run ok on mandrake 9.2 and 10 ??? Yep. I have been using a NForce2 (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) mobo since 9.0 and it works great. 9.1 needed to come out to use the onboard LAN, Soundcard, and hardware

[newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-05-30 Thread frankieh
Hi Guys, I have a small problem I'd like to get some advice on. I'm expected to repair a server that was delivered some time back, and it had a fried motherboard. The CPU in the system is an Athlon 1.2gig (Thunderbird). So I went to my wholesalers, and all they are selling now is Nforce2 and