Motherboard recommendation?

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:30:38 -0500
Lennart Sorensen disseminated the following:

> > Thanks.  166MB/sec for buffer-cache (-T) read is on low side, but can't
> > complain about the price.
> 
> Is this better?  (From an Asus A7N8X-E-DX with dual 512MB DDR333 CL2.5 XP
> 2800+ WD1200JD SATA)
> 
> debdev1:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hde
> 
> /dev/hde:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   1796 MB in  2.00 seconds = 897.24 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  152 MB in  3.03 seconds =  50.24 MB/sec

Holy shite! Was it any hassle getting SATA working under Linux? If not, I gotta
check that out for my next machine...

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