2004-10-20 20:42:24

by Andreas Tscharner

Subject: ICH6R and PCI - E working

Hello World,

I'm about to buy a new computer and the ASUS P5GD1 mainboard looks good
for me. My questions:

It has the Intel 915P chipset. Does it work with the current Linux
kernel?

It has also SATA with ICH6R chiptset. The SATA Linux status report page
says: " "looks like ICH5" support available in ata_piix ". What does
that mean? Does it work or not?

It has also PCI Express slots. Is there any support needed from the
software or is this a hardware thing and works out of the box?

Thanks in advance and best regards
Andreas
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2004-10-20 23:29:39

by Jeff Garzik

Subject: Re: ICH6R and PCI - E working

Andreas Tscharner wrote:
> Hello World,
>
> I'm about to buy a new computer and the ASUS P5GD1 mainboard looks good
> for me. My questions:
>
> It has the Intel 915P chipset. Does it work with the current Linux
> kernel?
>
> It has also SATA with ICH6R chiptset. The SATA Linux status report page
> says: " "looks like ICH5" support available in ata_piix ". What does
> that mean? Does it work or not?

SATA works but doesn't use spiffy new high performance features.

Jeff