MSI K7T PRO2- A Question?

[biscuitlover]

Is this board fully compatible with redhat 7.0? by that I mean, I could boot off the cd and installation would be a breeze. I have had many problems with my asus cubx(440bx) because it has an onboard ata66 controller and it just screws everything up. It is even a pain installing win2kpro on this board. Everytime I try to install linux on the cubx board it just automatically reboots and installing win2k I always get the inaccessible boot device blue screen. So if anyone has an MSI K7T board and installed linux easily, could you please post the information. I have read really good things about this board on anandtech and would love to purchase it, only if it is truly compatible with linux.
oh on the cubx board, you can switch the hard drive to the regular ide slots and load from there, but this becomes a pain after reformatting all the time. Oh and one more question about the Board? what is the price difference between the k7tpro and the proA. Just wanted to know if the price difference justifies going with the ata100 capabilities. any help would be appreciated.🙂

 

[ericb]

Do you mean the difference between the Pro2 and Pro2A or the Pro and Pro2A? Also see this thread Here.

 

[AlanShearer]

www.ntfaq.com will have info on installing Win2k on boards with added UDMA66 controllers.

You should have no problems with the KT7Pro2/2A and Linux/win2k installation as the UDMA66/100 support is in the Southbridge. With your ASUS board the controller is in a separate chip and during the Linux/Win2k setup you have to load up drivers for the controller (usually involves tricking it into being a SCSI controller as well.

 

[biscuitlover]

Thanks for all your help. You are right about the on board controller. The cubx has a on board cmd controller because the chipset never included 66/100. I will get the Msi pro2-a board. 🙂