[mdlug] ECS A770M-A motherboard SATA controller failure

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: David Lane

> About a year ago I tried to install Windows XP on an ECS board with
out
> success with SATA.  Linux did not like it either.  Now I stay away
from
> ECS and use MSI, Intel, and ASUS.  I even installed a CD/DVD SATA
drive
> for Suse Linux.  I know ECS makes a lot of boards but I know I can
count
> on MSI, Intel, and ASUS.

 Well, ECS's warranty dept is slow to respond, but we'll see. In the
meantime, I hooked up my DVD-RW drive via my IDE-to-USB adapter, but
it's surprisingly slow. I've got it connected via USB 2.0, and I've
definitely gotten USB 2.0 speeds with hard drives before, but backing up
a DVD last night took about two hours instead of ~20 minutes. It could
also play a movie fine from the start, but slowed down to less than
realtime in a few minutes.

 Running a script to convert the movie to DIVX for my Treo, it started
out at 87fps, but quickly dropped to ~23fps. Has anyone else seen such
behavior?

Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                  (313) 227-2317

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