ICH6R and PCI - E working

ICH6R and PCI - E working

[Andreas Tscharner]

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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Andreas Tscharner                                  starfire@dplanet.ch
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
                                                          -- Rich Cook 

Re: ICH6R and PCI - E working

[Jeff Garzik]

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