Re: K8 Mainboards Linux compatibility list add

[Elmar Pruesse <elmar@pruesse.net>]

Marco Amadori wrote:
> For the list at 
> https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/27/mainboards.html , please 
> add also:
>
> Mainboard - ATA - ATA Raid - Serial ATA - SCSI - Network - Sound
>
> Asus K8V-X -  via82cxxx - - sata_via - - sk98lin - via82xx
> Asus A8N-SLI (Deluxe) - amd74xx - - sata_nv,sata_sil - - sk98lin - intel8x0
>
> I don't know about ata raid, I use mdadm & dmsetup :-) On the latter 
> motherboard i have issues on the second gigabit ethernet, the nforce4 part, 
> maybe forcedeth driver will catch on, I just use the marvell yukon card.

I second that. :)

I had no problems using forcedeth. (performance is comparable to sk98lin 
on the other gbE port)

What is strange, is that the sata_nv driver numbers the ports 
differently that the bios does (port 1 swapped with port 3, and 2 with 4).

Elmar