Recommended 939 motherboard, AGP, >= 6 SATA ?

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Andre Majorel

Any recommendations for a socket 939 motherboard with at least 2
IDE ports and 6 SATA ports ? It's important that it's AGP, not
PCI-Express, as all PCI-Express VGA cards appear to have
chipsets that require proprietary kernel modules and/or X
drivers.
 
Any recommendations for a socket 939 motherboard with at least 2
IDE ports and 6 SATA ports ? It's important that it's AGP, not
PCI-Express, as all PCI-Express VGA cards appear to have
chipsets that require proprietary kernel modules and/or X
drivers.
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How about an ASUS K8N-E Deluxe?

2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33
2 x Serial ATA, support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD
Silicon Image Sil 3114 SATA controller:
4 x Serial ATA , RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, JBOD

http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=K8N-E Deluxe&langs=09

Good luck,
Ed
 
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How about an ASUS K8N-E Deluxe?
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The OP's concern WRT proprietary drivers (good luck finding any reasonably
modern video card that doesn't use them, BTW) indicates that the board will
be running Linux. nVidia's current Linux SATA driver is buggy to the point
that it's unusable. I have a dual-Opteron system here with an Asus K8N-DL,
and the SATA disks in it need to be on the Silicon Image controller to be
visible to both Windows and Linux. (Making things more difficult when I
first built the system, the Windows driver for the Silicon Image controller
used to be buggy as well, so you needed two drives to be able to dual-boot.)

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