New motherboard not supported by Ubuntu

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 04:10:51AM EST, Thomas Novin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 20:57 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > What motherboard did you buy? Without model numbers, it is difficult
> > to make anything but the vaguest suggestions.
> > 
> 
> All that is in the Launchpad Bug but I can write it here aswell:
> 
> Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3.
> 
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2741&ProductName=GA-EP35-DS3
> 
> South Bridge Intel® ICH9:
> 
> 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATAII0, SATAII1, SATAII4, SATAII5)
> supporting up to 4 SATA 3Gb/s devices
> 
> GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:
> 
> 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
> 2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (GSATAII0, GSATAII1) supporting up to 2 SATA
> 3Gb/s devices
> Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD

I have this board, and while I haven't tried suspend/hibernate, this board has perfect Linux support, with a few quirks, as follows:
* For some reason it is not possible to boot from a SATA CD device connected to the Intel SATA controller, if the Intel SATA controller is in AHCI mode.
* To boot the live CD, I have to have my CD drive on the JMicron controller, with the Intel controller set to disabled in BIOS, which makes it behave like an IDE controller. The JMicron controller still works in AHCI mode however. I believe this will be fixed in the kernel soon, if it isn't already in 2.6.25+.

I used the alternate CD to install, as both my controllers are set to AHCI mode.

Hope this helps.

Luke
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