[linux-audio-user] preferred motherboards ?

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:27:10PM -0500, Taybin Rutkin wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Steve Harris wrote:
> 
> > Avoid VIA KT333 based boards if you want to be able to rip cds with
> > cdparanoia, I had to add another IDE card to my machine. Other than that
> > its a good chipset though. 
> 
> If you're going IDE, avoid Maxtor like the devil.  I run a lab and their
> harddrives DIE.  They start beeping(!!!) during startup and won't mount.
> Maxtor is cheap, but sucky.

OTOH Seagate Barraccuda IVs are highly recommended, quiet and fast. I've
not had any reliability prblems yet...

- Steve