On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:53:26AM +1000, Gerald wrote: > On Thursday December 14 2006 21:47, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: > > > Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother > > > board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? > > > When i add a drive beyond 2 the system gets screwed up. > > > > Screwed up how? Error messages / details please! > > > > > I am not sure if it is a power supply problem (500W) or just a mother > > > board problem. > > > > 500W is plenty
Reading around, it seems that this board doesn't do staggered power-up of drives, so it's possible that four drives draw a LOT of power at startup. Also, do you actually have two vid cards (SLI). That raises the power requirement a lot of course. So I'm not so sure about the power any more. The first google for "A8N-SLi Asus bios four drives" brings up an article called "double trouble"[1] which details very poor performance with four drives. So it could be a power or bios thing. i.e. not just linux. Have you tried it under Windows? A couple of suggestions: . upgrade the bios . try another/bigger power supply. power output it says 500w but does it lie? is it good quality? Matt [1] http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1838318,00.asp -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html