From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FNPER-0002iT-Gr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:00:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2Q6xISK029520; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:59:18 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2Q6tDH3004912 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:55:13 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2006 06:55:13 -0000 Received: from N485P023.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [62.47.4.151] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 26 Mar 2006 08:55:13 +0200 X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <44263B5E.1020504@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:57:34 +0200 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sk Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: nForce chipsets (was: Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?) References: <44259D27.9080507@gmx.net> <200603251757.41196.nbensa@gmx.net> <4425BD29.8020402@gmx.net> <200603251626.57709.bss03@volumehost.net> In-Reply-To: <200603251626.57709.bss03@volumehost.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: cac6941c-04a9-4bbe-af02-396f9ab067f5 X-Archives-Hash: 0bbec8fe4321bd3cf079d4db36428449 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Odd, my nforce4 board has not encountered any issues since I bought it last > year. It successfully drives my WD Raptors and SATA CD/DVD-RW. AFAIK, nForce4 does not have any problem with sata-I disks. And out of sata-II, WD are the only drives which work without problem (I did not know it before, just now I have read a few forums and mailing lists, full of complaints about sata-II & nForce4). But with all other sata-II disks (Seagate, Hitachi, Maxtor, Samsung) nForce4 has really problems. Sometimes switching the drive to sata-I mode helps, sometimes not. But if you have WD, you are lucky... One more thing: the latest revision of nForce4 (which can be found on latest and rather expensive boards) has fixed it. Unfortunatelly, one can not know which chipset revision is used on a certain mobo, until you buy it, dismount cooler, and check chipset... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list