[mythtv-users] Mobo [off topic]

[Albert Santoni]

I also use an ASUS A7v8X-X... Works great, athough I've never tried ripping
a CD with it.
(Both my IDE channels work....)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lalor" <blalor at bravo5.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mobo [off topic]


> Brandon Beattie wrote:
>
> > I'd be curious if anyone here has their second channel ide working, if
> > they're using an MSI MB with a via kt400 chipset, or any kt400 chipset.
> > Also last night at the local LUG, someone has the MSI KT4-ultra, which
> > has the kt400 chipset, and they can't get anything installed either.
>
> I've got an Asus a7v8x-x[1] which uses the KT400 chipset.  I didn't know
about
> the problems others were having with it when I bought mine... :-)  I'm
using a
> Lite-On (IIRC; dmesg sees "hdc: JLMS XJ-HD166S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive")
> CD/DVD-ROM drive.  I used it to install RH9 and I use it for ripping CDs
> (about 200 so far).  I do get these errors when ripping:
> hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hdc: irq timeout: error=0x00
> hdc: DMA disabled
> hdc: ATAPI reset complete
> hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hdc: irq timeout: error=0x00
> hdc: ATAPI reset complete
>
> ... but *most* of my rips are successful (using Grip, oggenc and
cdparanoia).
>     The ones that aren't are due, I think, to scratched CDs.
>
> So there's another data point for ya.  I can't comment authoritatively on
> overall performance (which I think is a little iffy) because this is the
first
> high-performance computer I've build (actually, the first computer I've
built
> period).
>
> [1] http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7v8x-x/overview.htm
>
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