I decided to go for 64bit.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:56:41PM -0400, Ilya Palagin wrote:
> Quoting Frank Peng <frank_peng_01-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:
> 
> > Thank you guys enlighten me a lot. Now I decided to go
> > for 64bit:
> > 
> > Tyan 940 motherboard AGP8X
> > 3.0 GHz Opteron
> > 4GB memory
> > ATI X2-256T video card
> > 80GB SATA hard drive
> 
> But don't forget to make sure your SATA controller has a decent support in Linux
> kernel.  Currently I can't achieve stability for SiI3112A Serial ATA in RH
> Enterprise.  RedHat helpdesk replied that "official support for SATA controllers
> is only limited to ICH5 chipset."  Of course, it doesn't mean that others aren't
> supported, but this "half-supported" SiI3112A is a nightmare.

The SII3112A on the A7N8X-E-DX I use at work is flawless.  Has worked
perfectly under 2.4.25+ and 2.6.x (I currently use 2.6.7).  I also use
an ICH5R on the P4P800 and no problems there either.  Both the scsi and
old ide style interfaces have worked fine, although I prefer the scsi
style interface of libata, so I use that.

The SII3114 on the other hand would be a nightmare.

Lennart Sorensen
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