From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 20:14:23 2011 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 B79BF106566B for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:14:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from mail.suso.org (mail.suso.org [66.244.94.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929108FC0C for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-69-136-1-54.hsd1.in.comcast.net (c-69-136-1-54.hsd1.in.comcast.net [69.136.1.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.suso.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DDE41B0B4; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:46:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:45:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael L. Squires" X-X-Sender: mikes@familysquires.net To: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20110423153718.K15816@familysquires.net> References: <201104231620.16475.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <201104231704.14910.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Erich Dollansky , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with Booting 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: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:14:23 -0000 I haven't seen a verbose dmesg output booting from a non-RAID hard drive. I have 7.4-STABLE working on several multi-CPU Opteron systems, but they are all Tyan motherboards. Are Rioworks/Arima still in business? Rather than use the on-board controllers I've just bought some of the LSI 300-8X PCI-X RAID controllers which are cheap and work very well with SATA 2 drives (and FreeBSD). The Adaptec 2610 series are even cheaper, but they are only SATA 1. Mike Squires Tyan S2885 Tyan S4881