Hardware compatibility: NVIDIA Nforce 570 Ultra MCP and SATA

[Jamon Camisso]

Meng Cheah wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm looking at an ASUS M2N-E motherboard to use with a SATA hard drive 
> and SATA DVD burner.
> The chipset is the NVIDIA Nforce 570 Ultra MCP.
> 
> I understand that the earlier NVIDIA chipsets used the sata_nv driver 
> and that the later ones use the ahci driver.
> What does this chipset use?
> Has anyone experience with the above board or another board based on the 
> same chip?
> Are there any issues that I should be aware of?
> 
> Is it possible to run both IDE and SATA devices simultaneously?
> This is my first experience with SATA, any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.

Hi Meng, that's a good board, fairly inexpensive and very compatible. 
Don't forget your smp i686 kernel or, if you're feeling adventurous or 
want to take advantage of that blazing fast 5800+ processor, use a 
64-bit distro. You've got 4GB of low-latency RAM too right ;)

Jamon
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