From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 15:17:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09D516A443 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:17:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@FreeBSD.org) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4662B43D5A for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:17:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [194.192.25.142] (spider.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.142]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jASFHaCt037515; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:17:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <438B1F90.3090708@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:17:36 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gavin Atkinson References: <61FBEC57-424E-450F-A775-10E1F5E8DF92@cian.ws> <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org> <1133190443.41553.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1133190443.41553.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.16 Cc: Martin Cracauer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:17:48 -0000 Gavin Atkinson wrote: >On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:55 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > >>Cian Hughes wrote on Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:55:02PM +0000: >> >> >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>>Hey, I'm in no rush on this one, but I'm planning on building a new >>>Athlon AMD64 machine, It's primarily as a voip server and file >>>storage box for home use and will have 8 SATA (possibly SATA-II) >>>drives attached to a RAID 5 card, probably Highpoint (but i'm open on >>>this). >>> >>>I am wondering, what have people on this list built recently, within >>>these bounds, I'm looking to choose a motherboard with one or two >>>1000Base-T Ethernet ports (to keep PCI's free for other things, ISDN >>>card, TV Tuner, etc...), if possible what has and hasn't worked, i'm >>>not too worried about onboard HD controllers, etc. >>> >>> >>I have a DFI SLI-DRI which is NForce 4 based and I am overall amazed >>how well it works. In particular the SATA controller (only tested the >>first 4 ports). >> >> > >Out of interest, does FreeBSD correctly notice the hot-inserting of SATA >drives on this board? I'm fighting with an NForce 4 based system at the >moment which notices the hot removal but needs a reboot before it >notices a new drive has been inserted (under FreeBSD, Linux and >Solaris). > > That used to work on my MSI nf4 board on 6.0 forward. -Søren