From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 05:17:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475A616A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from bragi.housing.ufl.edu (bragi.housing.ufl.edu [128.227.47.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030F243D1D for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:17:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from WillS@housing.ufl.edu) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:17:39 -0500 Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8DB37F5@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: System advice requested Thread-Index: AcPyINt0zVK7PlFERtG4O/2J7wO5KgAEqO3A From: "Will Saxon" To: , "Willem Jan Withagen" cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: System advice requested X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:17:43 -0000 >=20 > There are several hardware-issues related threads in the archives at > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/ -- it looks=20 > like some > SATA stuff is to be avoided, depending on your FBSD install=20 > image the GigE > may give you some trouble and require a different NIC for=20 > fetching newer > sources, 4+2 DIMM configurations are crap. At least with my board (an 'awful' 4+0 MSI K8T Master2-FAR board) the = onboard broadcom NIC does not work correctly with bge. It does work with = ndis though. Also for whatever reason -current as of last weekend would = lock the machine up hard after ~ 30 minutes. Haven't had time to work on = why. -Will