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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GTUxi-0001Jr-1q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:52:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8U2oP4O007263; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:50:25 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8U2jUp2020428 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:45:30 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so333329ugc for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:45:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dTe0t6sSWEBggDGLz3avr/VAoiknQAUI919x+7nNCc690QkCYpfVabYx6Ebor5en0SPvVhaeb7Jru3jpvA89UveMbXmaMOYyV0vmXBsu84NTFyyC8aCvgzP1HMb5inUfCF6u2SFw0hVg72+p/FMW4wULYfVd6zIYP2a425bRnOM= Received: by 10.67.105.19 with SMTP id h19mr512824ugm; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.21.16 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64e8d2f20609291945g5fd16b7av695079020139a3af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:45:29 -0400 From: "Ryan Sims" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion In-Reply-To: <451DBBF8.7080504@paradise.net.nz> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <64e8d2f20609291228h3dbb57e3mfdec5ba0f8fcc15d@mail.gmail.com> <64e8d2f20609291502p4c517517w3d6c255b2c0f3bc7@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640609291552x679dec95l7d7db7e12dd8a40f@mail.gmail.com> <64e8d2f20609291613t236a0f13j965ae9c39da5f244@mail.gmail.com> <451DBBF8.7080504@paradise.net.nz> X-Archives-Salt: 8070de29-d401-4f28-a22d-0515ccee36e6 X-Archives-Hash: fe5dee58de867540748a4d3b8b43f864 On 9/29/06, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Ryan Sims wrote: > > On 9/29/06, Richard Fish wrote: > >> On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims wrote: > >> > Let me rephrase my question: If I only use SATA drives, non RAID, > >> > they only run through the P975 southbridge, and I should be ok, right? > >> > >> Well I don't own one of these things, but it looks like the SATA stuff > >> goes through the JMicron chip, while the RAID is provided by the 975. > > > > I thought it was the other way around? > > > > Southbridge > > - 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports > > JMicron(r) JMB363 PATA and SATA controller > > - 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices > > - 1 x Internal SATA 3.0 Gb/s port > > - 1 x External SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go) > > - Support SATA RAID 0, 1 and JBOD > > > > (from > > http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307) > > > > > > That seems to say that 4 SATA drives can go through the Southbridge > > (P965, typo earlier, sorry) > > > Yeah - looks like it is for that board - as it uses ICH8 for plain old > SATA and JMicron for RAID, other similar boards seem to use ICH8R for > RAID and JMicron for plain old SATA... just to add to the confusion :-) > Confusion indeed ;) So how well is the ICH8 southbride supported? RAID isn't on my list of things to worry about, so if I try just straight-up SATA drives, will things work off of 2006.1, you think? -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list