Hello again,
My blog is not dead. It is just irregular as always. I hope to add some new posts in two months as I have new and interesting hardware (mac mini aluminium, Phenom X2 555 on Socket AM2 motherboard and other), and my CPU collection will grow once again (Fujitsu SPARC64 GP, NEC v70, Freescale PPC7448 and IBM Power4 terminator among them).
Jetway released A06.1 BIOS version for their Jetway JNF76 motherboards recently. Unfortunately, I needed downgrade back to A05 because the new one refuses to cooperate with Debian (and other linux systems). They hang just after boot process starts.
After some more tests I also found that ADPE4S-PB was recognized if IDE mode is used for integrated SATA controller (VX800). So you can use network card with boot ROM but and ADPE4S-PB but you can't enable two RAIDs from ADPE4S-PB and VX800 at the same time.
The biggest disappointment was VIA VB8001. It was used as desktop computer but it was very unstable with Windows XP 64-bit, Windows 7. That instability resulted into reboots or unbearable slowness. The main reason appears to be in SATA controller. It is not recognized in BIOS quite often (with error to press g to continue). Though it might be a hard drive problem as I've never tried to change it.
My blog is not dead. It is just irregular as always. I hope to add some new posts in two months as I have new and interesting hardware (mac mini aluminium, Phenom X2 555 on Socket AM2 motherboard and other), and my CPU collection will grow once again (Fujitsu SPARC64 GP, NEC v70, Freescale PPC7448 and IBM Power4 terminator among them).
Jetway released A06.1 BIOS version for their Jetway JNF76 motherboards recently. Unfortunately, I needed downgrade back to A05 because the new one refuses to cooperate with Debian (and other linux systems). They hang just after boot process starts.
After some more tests I also found that ADPE4S-PB was recognized if IDE mode is used for integrated SATA controller (VX800). So you can use network card with boot ROM but and ADPE4S-PB but you can't enable two RAIDs from ADPE4S-PB and VX800 at the same time.
The biggest disappointment was VIA VB8001. It was used as desktop computer but it was very unstable with Windows XP 64-bit, Windows 7. That instability resulted into reboots or unbearable slowness. The main reason appears to be in SATA controller. It is not recognized in BIOS quite often (with error to press g to continue). Though it might be a hard drive problem as I've never tried to change it.
