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Subject: Re: Suse LinuxAMD64, WineX question

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 07:57:43 01/27/04

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On January 27, 2004 at 08:57:03, margolies,marc wrote:

>system has an SATA drive 'Raptor' by WesternDigital. Controller on MoBo is
>SiliconImaging (3114 I think) and main chipset is Nvidia 150pro.
>Where is the best place to research this issue?
>Thank you for the good warning!
>-Marc
>
>
>On January 27, 2004 at 08:43:29, Tom Likens wrote:
>
>>On January 27, 2004 at 00:14:01, margolies,marc wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>I am putting together an AMD64 system with an Opteron 146 cpu.
>>>I already got an OEM comp of WinXp-P. But I am considering adding Suse
>>>Linux9-pro for AMD 64 to the mix because it is native to my chipset.
>>>Who here has tried this? Also, how does WineX fare with the Fritz interface,
>>>also CA7 for ICC under wine interests me as well.
>>>thanks in advance for any responses-Marc
>>
>>Don't buy a system with a Promise Controller and SATA drives, because
>>the 64-bit version of SUSE 9.0 will not recognize the drives.
>>
>>--tom

SUSE has a 64-bit mailing list that you can reach via google (try
"AMD64 SUSE 9.0" for a number of interesting items).

good luck,
--tom



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