On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Joe Hartley wrote:
  I eventually disabled the interface and dropped an
Intel card I had on hand
 in, and configured the mobo so that the eSATA and USB 3.0 ports work.  Since
 then it's been behaving, but I wish I'd done a little more research on its
 Linux compatibility before I bought it. 
One of the companies that sells computers with linux preinstalled
(mentioned on this list within the month) uses one out of this line of MB.
So that was a good sign to start with. I picked one with more PCI slots.
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Len Ovens
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