OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:06 -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:25 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:02 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > > > > Anyone out there playing with OpenSUSE? I've order the 10.0 release
> > > > > and have been playing with 10.1 for x86_64. Not bad.
> > > >
> > > > I'm going to give it a shot soon on my AMD64 box.  Neither Ubuntu Hoary
> > > > nor Suse 9.3 would work properly with my hardware, so we'll see.
> > >
> > > What exactly is your hardware, and what kind of problems were you hitting?
> > > I'm just curious.
> >
> > I've got an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI board with an AMD64 3500+ chip.
> > The video card is an NVidia 6600GT PCIe.  I've got a 250GB SATA drive
> > and a DVD burner in there as well.  Suse 9.3 would install but would not
> > boot, it just hung.  Ubuntu booted OK but I had a lot of app crashes and
> > general instability.  Both were 64-bit distros, so I was tempted to use
> > a 32-bit version and see what happened but it seemed like a waste of a
> > 64-bit chip.  WinXP 32 works fine, and since this box is mostly used for
> > gaming I haven't taken the time to dig into the issues.  Given a custom
> > kernel I'm sure Suse would have booted OK.  The app issues in Ubuntu
> > were also probably not unfixable I just got lazy and decided to wait
> > until the 64-bit distributions stabilized a bit.  I think all this easy
> > distribution stuff has spoiled me, I don't expect to have to fight with
> > hardware anymore. :)
>
>
> I have had no trouble with 250 GB SATA disks with OpenSuse or Gentoo
> 2005.1. They (4 in one box) even worked fine as a logical volume. How
> are the SATA set in the BIOS? I use mine as JBOD, not RAID of any sort.

It would depend on the type of controller.  NVIDIA's SATA controller has
RAID support (albeit limited) which is enabled/disabled in the BIOS.

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