you load ohci and ehci. You plug in mouse and keybord. dmesg or lsusb+ /proc/interrupts can tell you everything you need to know. Or you get the patch or you install a recent kernel - like 2.6.27.8 or 9
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yeah, the kernel patch is only needed for boards without the bios fix.
So if Biostar fixed the bios, you won't see any problems. Asrock didn't but the fix worked. And it seems that Gigabyte did not fix their bios too - which is pretty weak if you think about the price you have to pay for Gigabyte stuff.
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Originally posted by energyman View Postyeah, the kernel patch is only needed for boards without the bios fix.
So if Biostar fixed the bios, you won't see any problems. Asrock didn't but the fix worked. And it seems that Gigabyte did not fix their bios too - which is pretty weak if you think about the price you have to pay for Gigabyte stuff.
I think all of these mb manufacturers source the same cheap taiwanese parts anyway, and it's just your luck when they fail. Asrock, though, does release frequent bios updates so that's a plus, but that part alone doesn't make my purchase decision.
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well i never really got far enough to really test the hard drive. i did hdparm -t /dev/sda, that was giving about 50 MB/sec. i consider that really slow for a new computer. my ancient pentium3 can still do 55 MB/sec, and my file sever with an old ide pci card can do between 60 and 70 MB/sec.
matt
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Originally posted by energyman View Posthdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2012 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1006.25 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 246 MB in 3.00 seconds = 81.93 MB/sec
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