Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Odd, my nforce4 board has not encountered any issues since I bought it last year. It successfully drives my WD Raptors and SATA CD/DVD-RW.
AFAIK, nForce4 does not have any problem with sata-I disks. And out of sata-II, WD are the only drives which work without problem (I did not know it before, just now I have read a few forums and mailing lists, full of complaints about sata-II & nForce4). But with all other sata-II disks (Seagate, Hitachi, Maxtor, Samsung) nForce4 has really problems. Sometimes switching the drive to sata-I mode helps, sometimes not. But if you have WD, you are lucky... One more thing: the latest revision of nForce4 (which can be found on latest and rather expensive boards) has fixed it. Unfortunatelly, one can not know which chipset revision is used on a certain mobo, until you buy it, dismount cooler, and check chipset... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
