toman wrote: > Yeah, OK, I pretty much knew that debian was never current > (look at their install) but I find hardware trends so uninteresting > that I never keep up with them. I chose this board by looking for a > price point with firewire and no awful reviews. I didn't know what > support SATA had, couldn't find anything definitive on the web and > in LJ's Dec 2003 monster machine article it was treated as > a non-issue, though with hindsight that was just for Suse and just for the > controller they were using. I shot myself in the foot, but it'll grow > back once > the distributions mature.
I've found that as a general rule, Linux supports hardware that is six months old very well, and the newest stuff never works at first. So, in an ideal world, I'd know what I'm going to need six months in advance, buy it, and set it on a shelf until I needed it. Then I'd be delighted to find that everything works perfectly. (-: I'm getting my first SATA drive next week. Since the motherboard I'm attaching it to is 10 months old now, it should "just work". (-: > So like I said, I don't like hardware. I put an older 20Gig > WD drive on it just to get something going and started a debian install, > which went, sorta. The board has an Athlon 2600XP on it and a > a Gig of DDR333 and it seems to be decidedly less responsive > than my trusty old Athlon 1Ghz machine that I bought a couple years ago. > ???? Is there some special incantation that needs to be performed in the > BIOS that I neglected? I left things at the default values figuring > that it > would perform adequately; apparently not. Ideas? IIRC, Debian doesn't enable hard disk DMA by default. If that's not turned on, the whole box will seem sluggish. apt-get hwtools, then I think you need to edit /etc/init.d/hwtools . -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
