Motherboard for AMD64

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:19:41AM -0400, Marc Lijour wrote:
> I am using a K8V SE deluxe but it is getting old and I had a couple of issues 
> with it. The last one being that the VIA chipset cannot recognize SATA-II 
> drives.... 

They are _supposed_ to be backwards compatible.

> For the record, I bought the Maxtor Diamond 10 and it comes without jumper 
> settings (I know it is not a IDE drive) hence I can't tell it to emulate SATA 
> (1) as other drives permit.
> 
> Do you know of a good motherboard out there?

Well you are not the first person I have read about with problems on
that type of drive.  I saw one person on lkml that had two maxtors, with
a slightly different model code.  One worked, the other was unstable.

Are you running the latest bios version for the board?  (Latest is 1402
from March 2nd, 2006).

So far I have been very happy with an A8V Deluxe, although I have not
run SATA2 drives on it, just a pair of WD 250G SATA1 drives.

There are people seeing problems with maxtor drives on intel, via, sil,
and other controllers.  I think maxtor has screwed up their sata
firmware (just as seagate had in the past).

Here is a thread from last month on lkml about it:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0603.2/0295.html

Many people seeing odd problems it seems, and saying changing disks to
hitachi or wd or whatever makes the problem go away.

Len Sorensen
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