David W Noon wrote:
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> On Friday 23 Nov 2007 11:22 in article <fi6cpv$kee$1@snic.vub.ac.be> of
> alt.os.linux.gentoo, Wim Cossement(a@b.c) wrote:
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>> David W Noon wrote:
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>>> You decide on the "bittedness" of the kernel, glibc, etc., when you
>>> do the installation. You set the CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS
>>> in /etc/make.conf and you specify the processor type in the kernel
>>> configuration: there are separate selections for AMD Hammer (Opteron,
>>> Athlon64, etc.) and Intel EM64T (Pentium D, Core2 Duo/Quad).
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags
>
> You should take a hefty pinch of salt with some of the suggested
> settings in that Wiki page. It is intended for complete newbies.
>
> If you go with an Intel EM64T, I will post you mine here, before you
> install; just ask when you are ready. They are easily changed for AMD
> K8/Opteron/etc., processors.
Will do when the time is right!
> [snip]
>>> The /dev/hdb indicates a PATA (EIDE/ATAPI) connection for the drive,
>>> using the old PATA driver modules in the kernel. The newer libsata
>>> drivers configure these drives into the SCSI namespace
>>> as /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1, etc.
>>>
>>> If you are using a SATA interface as well as the PATA one then you
>>> have probably configured the kernel wrongly. This is one of the
>>> touchy areas of newer hardware under Linux.
>> The HD is SATA but the optical drives are PATA so I have to use both.
>> And I probably lost track a bit when the kernel started using
>> libata... Following the Gentoo SATA wiki now.
>
> You will likely need to use the libsata drivers for both your PATA and
> SATA interfaces. Mixing the older PATA drivers with SATA can cause all
> kinds of problems, especially with IRQ handling.
Now I understand how it works. I need AHCI SATA, Intel ICH SATA and
Jmicron PATA support and leave all other IDE stuff turned off.
And I had problems with that IRQ handling I suppose.
>>> Also, most new motherboards don't have many PATA connectors --
>>> typically only one. They have SATA connectors instead. Your old hard
>>> drives might need some fiddling with adaptor connectors to get them
>>> to work very, very slowly.
>> I'll try to get an SATA only system then.
>
> It depends what other peripherals you want to connect. If you want
> ATAPI-connected CD/DVD-ROM and/or CD-RW/DVD+RW/-RW/-RAM drive(s) then a
> PATA interface will be needed somewhere. But the typical modern mobo
> has 1 PATA and 6 SATA connectors.
>
>>> It looks to me that you are really faced with buying most of a new
>>> system. You can probably keep your keyboard, mouse and screen.
>>> Everything else will probably need to be upgraded.
>> Well I'll also get a new screen and mouse, one that matches the colors
>> :-)
>
> Note also that beige is no longer available from some of the better case
> manufacturers. You can only have black, silver or raw aluminium from
> Chieftec and a few others these days.
Black is an okay color for me. :-p
Wimmy
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>
> Dave [RLU#314465]
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