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Linux issues with newer boards
I have been accustomed to using Asus boards in small servers and
workstations but notice the newer boards (P4P800, P4PE, P4C800) are impossible to deal with when using anything past Redhat Linux 9 and Fedora. Although I have been able to get most of the new boards working with work arounds, the P4P800 in particular is still from what I understand to be blacklisted in Fedora. I now use RH 8.0 on my P4P800 which I still had to use work arounds, which is not an ideal solution. I need to purchase more mobos for web/database server use and would like recommendations from this group whether or not I should be using these boards considering the recent Linux compatability issues. Anyone know if this is an issue with Asus designing thier boards to be specifically Windows centric or does this have to do with the community not keeping up with new boards? |
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Rick wrote:
I have been accustomed to using Asus boards in small servers and workstations but notice the newer boards (P4P800, P4PE, P4C800) are impossible to deal with when using anything past Redhat Linux 9 and Fedora. I use MDK 10.0 flawlessly with my P4C800-E new kernel and everything, maybe you should give it a shot. |
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Hi Philip,
"Philip Callan" schreef in bericht news:w3rUc.133961$gE.13572@pd7tw3no... I use MDK 10.0 flawlessly with my P4C800-E new kernel and everything, maybe you should give it a shot. Hi Philip, Does Flawlessly in your case mean, that MDK 10.0 supports SATA drives on the Intel SATA controller? And is there native support for the onboard Promise controller as well? Jan |
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Jan wrote:
Hi Philip, "Philip Callan" schreef in bericht news:w3rUc.133961$gE.13572@pd7tw3no... I use MDK 10.0 flawlessly with my P4C800-E new kernel and everything, maybe you should give it a shot. Hi Philip, Does Flawlessly in your case mean, that MDK 10.0 supports SATA drives on the Intel SATA controller? And is there native support for the onboard Promise controller as well? Jan I can't speak for the Promise controller, but I boot and run my OS of the Intel ICH-5R chipset, so yes it will support the SATA controller. As for the promise, I'm pretty sure there is, a lot of people have promise chipsets on their RAID cards Take a look around the MDK website, or even better google alt.os.linux.mandrake and see what people say |
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"Philip Callan" schreef in bericht news:jOsUc.131552$J06.68793@pd7tw2no... I can't speak for the Promise controller, but I boot and run my OS of the Intel ICH-5R chipset, so yes it will support the SATA controller. As for the promise, I'm pretty sure there is, a lot of people have promise chipsets on their RAID cards Take a look around the MDK website, or even better google alt.os.linux.mandrake and see what people say THX Philip, I will do the search you recommended. What kind of videocard do you use? Mine is a Asus Radeon 9600 XT. Any idea if Ati chipsets are supported? Jan |
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"Philip Callan" wrote in message news:jOsUc.131552$J06.68793@pd7tw2no... Jan wrote: Hi Philip, "Philip Callan" schreef in bericht news:w3rUc.133961$gE.13572@pd7tw3no... I use MDK 10.0 flawlessly with my P4C800-E new kernel and everything, maybe you should give it a shot. Hi Philip, Does Flawlessly in your case mean, that MDK 10.0 supports SATA drives on the Intel SATA controller? And is there native support for the onboard Promise controller as well? Jan I can't speak for the Promise controller, but I boot and run my OS of the Intel ICH-5R chipset, so yes it will support the SATA controller. As for the promise, I'm pretty sure there is, a lot of people have promise chipsets on their RAID cards Take a look around the MDK website, or even better google alt.os.linux.mandrake and see what people say Everything I see so far in the linux side seems to be just getting by on the seat of the Linux communities pants with no help from Asus. From other threads that I read it seems that they are only focusing on Windows and have completely abandoned Linux. However I am not sure how true this is or just people that are ****ed off that they can't get their stuff to work with the later releases of Linux. This is such a shame since these boards are pretty solid for Windows but like many who purchase Asus we also run a mixed Linux environment. All our workstations and servers are running Asus boards currently. But now it is time for some upgrades and it just not look good some of the problems we have had with Redhat 9 to Fedora FC2 on the newer boards. Anyone else here using the newer Asus boards in a technical business environment or for small servers using later versions of Linux, including RH9, RHE to Fedora? |
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Jan wrote:
"Philip Callan" schreef in bericht news:jOsUc.131552$J06.68793@pd7tw2no... I can't speak for the Promise controller, but I boot and run my OS of the Intel ICH-5R chipset, so yes it will support the SATA controller. As for the promise, I'm pretty sure there is, a lot of people have promise chipsets on their RAID cards Take a look around the MDK website, or even better google alt.os.linux.mandrake and see what people say THX Philip, I will do the search you recommended. What kind of videocard do you use? Mine is a Asus Radeon 9600 XT. Any idea if Ati chipsets are supported? Jan I hope so I use a R9700Pro AIW, dual setup, my CRT and my TV as a secondary (not clone) display, works great for playing a DVD for the kid while working on the CRT in a terminal/web browser |
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Rick wrote:
I have been accustomed to using Asus boards in small servers and workstations but notice the newer boards (P4P800, P4PE, P4C800) are impossible to deal with when using anything past Redhat Linux 9 and Fedora. Although I have been able to get most of the new boards working with work arounds, the P4P800 in particular is still from what I understand to be blacklisted in Fedora. I now use RH 8.0 on my P4P800 which I still had to use work arounds, which is not an ideal solution. I have an Asus P4P800-E deluxe running Fedora FC2. Look at the Fedora FAQ, in particular qustion 8:- http://www.fedorafaq.org/ Download the patch, burn the ISO and follow the instructions precisely, you will soon have a working Fedora system. The latest kernel is 2.6.7 not 2.6.6 as the FAQ states. |
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Rick wrote:
Everything I see so far in the linux side seems to be just getting by on the seat of the Linux communities pants with no help from Asus. From other threads that I read it seems that they are only focusing on Windows and have completely abandoned Linux. However I am not sure how true this is or just people that are ****ed off that they can't get their stuff to work with the later releases of Linux. This is such a shame since these boards are pretty solid for Windows but like many who purchase Asus we also run a mixed Linux environment. All our workstations and servers are running Asus boards currently. But now it is time for some upgrades and it just not look good some of the problems we have had with Redhat 9 to Fedora FC2 on the newer boards. Anyone else here using the newer Asus boards in a technical business environment or for small servers using later versions of Linux, including RH9, RHE to Fedora? Im running a multiboot linux system including FC2 on a P4P800E-deluxe motherboard. I dont use SATA drives but have a maxtor 160G UDMA 133 HD. Speed is indeed impressive:- orac:/home/anc # hdtach -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.15 seconds =853.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.12 seconds = 57.14 MB/sec This equals hdtach when running under windoze xp. The rest of the Asus Motherbord, onboard sound and lan, is also supported under linux as is hardware monitoring using the Winbod W83627 hardware sensors module. The problem with Fedora causing reboots was a misconfigured 2.6 kernel, this has been patched now as per the Fedora FAQ. |
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"anc" wrote in message ... Rick wrote: I have been accustomed to using Asus boards in small servers and workstations but notice the newer boards (P4P800, P4PE, P4C800) are impossible to deal with when using anything past Redhat Linux 9 and Fedora. Although I have been able to get most of the new boards working with work arounds, the P4P800 in particular is still from what I understand to be blacklisted in Fedora. I now use RH 8.0 on my P4P800 which I still had to use work arounds, which is not an ideal solution. I have an Asus P4P800-E deluxe running Fedora FC2. Look at the Fedora FAQ, in particular qustion 8:- http://www.fedorafaq.org/ Download the patch, burn the ISO and follow the instructions precisely, you will soon have a working Fedora system. The latest kernel is 2.6.7 not 2.6.6 as the FAQ states. Thanks, glad to see there is finally a work around. The P4P800 works fine for me under RH 8.0. I did not want to buy any more P4P800 boards without having a fix for this problem since any new installations are going to be Fedora. |
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