[plug] choosing a motherboard for Linux - does it matter?

[Cameron Patrick]

Senectus . wrote:

> On 11/28/05, Mike Holland <myk.list at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> >    This should be a FAQ, but given how little recent info I found on the
> > web, should I assume it doesn't matter much?   Are there any special
> > considerations for Linux?
> >    Does the motherboard brand matter (for Linux), or is it just the
> > chipset that counts?
> >    Are some chipsets better for suspend-to-RAM, or -to-disk ?
> >
> > Nvidia seem to provide good Linux support. Is nForce-4 a reasonable
> > choice?  e.g. Abit NV8 (PCI-E, Gb-ether )
> > Any reason to choose nForce-3 instead?   (AGP)
> watch out for onboard SATA RAID, some of them are really poorly
> supported under linux.

For SATA under Linux, the canonical reference is:

    http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html

and to tell if you motherboard has real RAID or BIOS RAID:

    http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html

Cameron.