[NBLUG/talk] Does a Mobo chart exist?

[Todd Cary]

Sean -

Maybe I am not reading the specs correctly or something, but when I go 
to TigerDirect or Mwave, all of the mobos appear to be SATA...not 
IDE...like I am out of date.

Do you know of a good source for motherboards?

Todd

Sean wrote:
> I personally have found that while all motherboards will work with
> Linux, but it will be the on-board devices that could individually
> fail to work on the new boards. Once you have the data on these
> on-board devices, you can look for any supported Linux drivers. If you
> find them you should be good to go. A good example of this is good
> support for Intel on-bard network cards, but ATI drivers for on-board
> video cards used to be harder to come by. I have tried to stick with
> nVidia chipset motherboards as they seem to have broader Linux driver
> support.
>
> I must admit to not understanding what you mean by IDE compatability
> for Linux. I you simply mean that it has IDE ports, then virtually all
> will have at least one IDE port. SATA has not yet completely replaced
> IDE.
>
>
> Sean
>
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