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 1GTV0r-0002Ci-MP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:55:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8U2sSQM001998; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:54:28 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8U2mOS5027124 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:48:24 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so333439ugc for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:48:24 -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=ZV5wRc/r80PPYyFM9j0lbg27ikAUXo5VO1F64H48g08tbZRZKp+Zq7FpSFjWvcr+Ngnne81nP1A8Ol795eLDCqkNv6Lprjo3LiP3VBP07aXIeVVK9kEcGFUaWRnGE3bYj5HOg6Szbq0zVkycQCrGIw902IPC6P/H95THbexgLNY= Received: by 10.66.224.3 with SMTP id w3mr513581ugg; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.21.16 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64e8d2f20609291948n35764adcoa36e61583eb9b75e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:48:23 -0400 From: "Ryan Sims" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion In-Reply-To: <64e8d2f20609291945g5fd16b7av695079020139a3af@mail.gmail.com> 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> <64e8d2f20609291945g5fd16b7av695079020139a3af@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1034d16d-0238-40db-90f0-ff98bac79f4c X-Archives-Hash: d27db638d68601143c7b49c3d51001a3 On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims wrote: > 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? Nuts, ignore that. Just realized the optical drives will be PATA, which goes through the JMicron. Shoot. Looks like I'll have to give either kernelOfTruth's LiveCD a shot, or possibly roll my own. Or find a LiveCD for another distro that has 2.6.18 or so. Hmm. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list