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Originally posted by blueygreen@Dec 30 2005, 11:06 PM
Thanks for all your help - sounds as though I should be ok.
I was intending to go for a lower range graphics card - probably a GeForce 6200 PCI Express for now. That card seems to be fully supported according to the hardware list on the Suse site.
The hard-drive is one I already have - a 160GB Hitachi (Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB S150). I've looked up the chipset of the SATA controller on the Asus website and it appears to be a Silicon Image 3114 RAID Controller if that means anything to anyone?
Thanks again for your help - it is much appreciated.
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I have no experience with SATA, and anything I know is from reading the linux forums, or the occasional surf. From what I have read, the Silicon Image 3114 RAID Controller is highly regarded. As to its linux compatibility, I don't know much other than to note that by doing a google search for "Silicon Image 3114 RAID Controller Linux" I obtained a lot of hits. I only looked at a few hits, and I did read of Fedora users getting it to work (with the RAID disabled).
For example, here is a link to a fedora site where a linux user (fedora) notes they got the Silicon Image 3114 RAID Controller on the ASUS K8N-E Deluxe motherboard to work with linux:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archiv...p/t-32999.html
I also read of gentoo users getting the Silicon Image 3114 RAID Controller to work (as opposed to difficulty with a nVidia SATA controller):
http://gentoo-wiki.com/ASUS_K8N-DL_d...on_motherboard
As an aside, here is a good linux site for SATA:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
And another:
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html
From what I have read, SuSE-10.0 has a somewhat "spotty" record in easily handling SATA. I have read of many SuSE users getting SATA to work without difficulty, and read of some others being put through a lot of technical hoops and loops, before they finally got it to work. ... I myself am hopeful that SuSE-10.1 (and 10.2) will address a lot of the driver difficulties that are being encountered in SuSE-10, making it more user friendly for SATA users (and more friendly for ATI graphic users). Still, reference the SATA you are considering, with my having typed my concerns, there is probably a good chance that SuSE-10.0 will function with the Silicon Image 3114 RAID controller. (It would be nice if someone who actually uses this controller with a SATA drive would type something here).