VIA EX15000G
Walter C. Pelissero
walter at pelissero.de
Mon May 19 13:27:46 UTC 2008
Jonas Lund writes:
> I have an EN12000eg machine, running 6.2 on it. At the start however i
> had some crappy fake-raid card installed. If any disks were attached
> to it the boot would just hang. (Don't remember exactly but i think it
> died already in the bootloader)
No additional card.
> I think i have turned off the SW raid built into the board. no memory
> as to if that affected the machine however.
I'm not aware of any RAID implemented in the motherboard's chipset.
> A small note also, check that the bios reports the same amount of
> memory that you have installed. If it's halved then there's a bug in
> the chipsets that made atleast my board to use half the memory if the
> stick had chips with 128MB on it. If you can get a stick with 64MB
> chips it'll work. See www.mini-itx.com for a hopefully better
> description :)
I've installed a 1GB stick. It looks as it is seen correctly (real
memory = 958MB, avail memory = 922MB).
> I'm quite happy with it now. using gmirror, 2x 3.5" disks and a silent
> machine that only uses 49 watts.
I was quite happy with an M6000 as well.
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walter pelissero
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