[nlug] Re: Which onboard sata should I use?

2008-11-03 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- ./aal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a system with a GA K8NS 939 Ultra mobo. I will have multi hdds in it, only one of which will be SATA since I will only have one sata drive and this board has 2 sata hosts I wanted to know which would be the best one to use(if it makes a

[nlug] Re: Which onboard sata should I use?

2008-11-03 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Missed your caffeine this morning Steven? PCI or PCI? Yep, we all knew what you meant, but it did bring a smile to my face. Andy On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Steven S. Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - ./aal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a system with a GA K8NS 939

[nlug] Re: Which onboard sata should I use?

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Thomas
I have the K8NDL. which I think is fairly similar. From what I understand (though it's been a while), the Si controller just comes as part of another chipset used for other stuff on the board and the NForce3 has hardware assist for RAID (drivers only available for Windows of course). I think

[nlug] RAID/mdstat question

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Thomas
I'm running into a bit of a hiccup with my RAID setup. I have several mirrored partitions between sda (SATA) and hda (ATA). Everything appears to be setup and mirroring correctly but upon reboot, only the sda partitions are added to the array. I can re-add the hda partitions manually and

[nlug] Re: Which onboard sata should I use?

2008-11-03 Thread ./aal
ok thanks guys I mainly wanted to know if there was any big red light regarding one of the choices. It seems that no one has had anything blow up due to NF3 or SI3512 sata so that is the biggest question answered. As far as use...The sata drive is the storage drive in my mythtv box, so it isnt

[nlug] Re: Meeting Nov 11

2008-11-03 Thread Brian
If I could just make a suggestion.. and please don't misunderstand me.. I'm not trying to be a snob or offend anyone. Would it be a good idea that a statement be made at the beginning of each meeting that the time alloted for the NLUG meeting should be designated to LINUX and not Microsoft or any

[nlug] Re: RAID/mdstat question

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Thomas
Think I worked this one out. My hda partitions are not type 0xFD. I'll change them and hopefully that'll fix things up. Richard Thomas wrote: I'm running into a bit of a hiccup with my RAID setup. I have several mirrored partitions between sda (SATA) and hda (ATA). Everything appears to be

[nlug] Re: Meeting Nov 11

2008-11-03 Thread Curt Lundgren
On Nov 2, 7:09 pm, Michael Stahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.  Your Name :) 2.  Rough topic 3. Length of time you'll need. Curt Lundgren Perspective on home automation 15 minutes I thought I'd bring along some graphics showing some of the stuff I've worked on and talk a bit about how I

[nlug] Re: Meeting Nov 11

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Stahnke
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I could just make a suggestion.. and please don't misunderstand me.. I'm not trying to be a snob or offend anyone. Would it be a good idea that a statement be made at the beginning of each meeting that the time alloted for the

[nlug] Re: Meeting Nov 11

2008-11-03 Thread David Cintron
This seems completely reasonable given the name of the group is Nashville Linux Users Group. While I'm not always in attendance, I have been disappointed when I do attend and the topic of discussion is something not directly related to Linux. I say if Tux doesn't approve of it, we don't

[nlug] Re: Meeting Nov 11

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Chaney
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I could just make a suggestion.. and please don't misunderstand me.. I'm not trying to be a snob or offend anyone. Would it be a good idea that a statement be made at the beginning of each meeting that the time alloted for the