From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 18:21:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCAE1065678 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from ti-edu.ch (posta.ti-edu.ch [195.176.176.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350008FC16 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:21:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) X-Virus-Scanned: by cgpav Received: from [193.5.152.27] (HELO [127.0.0.1]) by ti-edu.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTP id 25591078 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:21:52 +0200 Message-ID: <480E2C78.9050407@supsi.ch> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:20:40 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <480938EC.2000103@supsi.ch> <20080419090036.GA6302@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <480A21B4.3010702@supsi.ch> <20080419220653.GA53245@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080419220653.GA53245@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: is this hardware supported? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:21:55 -0000 Roland, Thank you for your support. I'll post here the result of installing FreeBSD on that HW. Best regards. Robi. Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Ok. So what about this? >> http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307 >> >> Has anybody been using it? >> With what success? >> Can anybody use the embedded RAID controller to make a HW RAID 1 >> with two SATA disks? > > According to ata(4), the ICH8 chipset is supported. According to > ataraid(4) the jmicron is supported. > > But if it doesn't work, you can always use gmirror(8). > >> Is the NIC supported and working well? > > Hard to say. The spec page you provided doesn't list the type of Realtek > chip used. Again, if it doesn't work get a cheap Realtek 8139 card. > >> Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported >> HW list, so that's why I ask the list. > > It is better to check the manual pages of drivers. > >> But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3 >> can run on this HW > > I recently booted FreeBSD on a system with a intel motherboard with a > ICH9 chipset. Everything seemed to work OK. > > Roland