On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:49 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 15:04, Rajesh Rajani wrote:
Last month I got myself a Core 2 Duo E6600 (Rs. 16,500/-) with a DG965RY mobo (Rs. 7,300/-) and 1 GB DDR2-533 RAM (Rs. 4,750/-). All from Lamington Road.
This motherboard has 1 IDE and 4 SATA ports. The IDE is powered by the Marvell PATA chipset which is not yet very well supported in the Linux world so when you connect a CD/DVD drive here, the installation doesn't find the installation CD/DVD. I've tried Knoppix 5.0.1, Ubuntu 6.06 and Suse 10.1 64-bit.
Aww then this board is pretty useless to me since I need atleast 2 IDE channels. I have 3 PATA disks and 1 SATA disk!
You can install a add on card. It seems the new crops of mobos have one IDE channel to accommodate CD/DVD ROMS/Writers. The same is true for the newer notebooks.
-- akk