From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 6 17:27:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A6D916A401 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 17:27:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D0D13C457 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 17:27:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix, from userid 58) id A8407C2F4; Sun, 6 May 2007 13:10:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on zoraida.natserv.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME autolearn=disabled version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Report: * 0.0 DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME Domain Keys: policy says domain signs some mails * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (zoraida.natserv.net [66.114.65.147]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13BF7C2E6; Sun, 6 May 2007 13:10:14 -0400 (EDT) References: <200704061837.l36IbNEF071481@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: Tuc at =?ISO-8859-1?Q?T-B-O-H=2ENET?= Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 13:10:13 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: All I want is a decent server! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 17:27:44 -0000 Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET writes: >I'm having a heck of a time trying to find somewhere > responsible and responsive to buy a server from. It shouldn't be > a major deal, but it does seem to be. Catching up with my lists. Although this may be too late to help the original poster, where I work we buy our servers from Ixsystems. http://ixsystems.com They are very involved with the BSD community and a few months ago bought PCBSD. Price wise they are not cheap. Most of their server are over 2K.. even for their "low end setup". So if you are looking for a budget server under 2K they are not it. If you are looking for a server over 2K.. then they are worth considering. Excellent knowledge of what works with FreeBSD (and likely other BSDs). We get our servers from them ready to go. With FreeBSD installed, disks/RAID setup and network configured to our specifications. From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 6 17:44:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B44516A400 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 17:44:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589A713C447 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 17:44:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix, from userid 58) id 3C093C2F6; Sun, 6 May 2007 13:16:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on zoraida.natserv.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME autolearn=disabled version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Report: * 0.0 DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME Domain Keys: policy says domain signs some mails * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (zoraida.natserv.net [66.114.65.147]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9621C2E6; Sun, 6 May 2007 13:16:26 -0400 (EDT) References: <200704081823.l38INlcJ030045@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: Tuc at =?ISO-8859-1?Q?T-B-O-H=2ENET?= Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 13:16:26 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: All I want is a decent server! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 17:44:24 -0000 Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET writes: > IXSystems Most configurations are over 2K /FreeBSDSystems They seem even more expensive than ixsystems. >Silicon Mechanics They are good and we once used them, but ixsystems has worked better for us since they are more familiar with FreeBSD. We also had some problems once with Silicon Mechanics and it took too long to solve the problem. Ultimately we sent the machine back and the replacement worked well, but it took too long to diagnose the problem for them to send us a replacement server. From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 03:21:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C6416A407 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 03:21:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93BB13C43E for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 03:21:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix, from userid 58) id 49AB7C2E6; Sun, 6 May 2007 23:21:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on zoraida.natserv.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME autolearn=disabled version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Report: * 0.0 DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME Domain Keys: policy says domain signs some mails * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (zoraida.natserv.net [66.114.65.147]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE63C2F4 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 23:21:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: FreeBSD Hardware Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 23:21:13 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: MicroATX motherdboards that have gigabit interface? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 03:21:16 -0000 Anyone knows of any MicroATX motherboard with at least one Gigabit card that works well with FreeBSD? Searching the archives I have only found some MicroATX boards with 10/100. For example found some decent comments on the Asus A8V-MX. One MicroATX I found which has gigabit is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182120 LAN Chipset Intel 82573V Gigabit PCI-Express Ethernet Second LAN Chipset Intel 82573L Gigabit PCI-Express Ethernet But no idea if it will work with FreeBSD. From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 12:26:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E48D16A403 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 12:26:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB7B13C459 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 12:26:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix, from userid 58) id 689E6C2F4; Mon, 7 May 2007 08:26:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on zoraida.natserv.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME autolearn=disabled version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Report: * 0.0 DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME Domain Keys: policy says domain signs some mails * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (zoraida.natserv.net [66.114.65.147]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C229C2E6; Mon, 7 May 2007 08:26:26 -0400 (EDT) References: <45CA0331.2090500@sremick.net> <200702072239.38756.groot@kde.org> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: Adriaan de Groot Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 08:26:26 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building new AM2 system, advice needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 12:26:29 -0000 Adriaan de Groot writes: > I got a Asus M2NPV-VM, mini-ATX board, 4 DIMM slots, VGA D-SUB + DVI out > onboard, sound HDA (needs patch from Ariff, works a treat), nve also > supported in 6.2. Catching up with the list.. Did the onboard LAN work for that board? From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 13:44:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457C816A402 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 13:44:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from poster.science.ru.nl (poster.science.ru.nl [131.174.30.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A0313C4C1 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 13:44:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from smeltpunt.science.ru.nl [131.174.16.145] (helo=smeltpunt.science.ru.nl) by poster.science.ru.nl (8.13.7/5.11) with ESMTP id l47DXV84006129 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 15:33:32 +0200 (MEST) Received: from [195.55.82.66] (helo=ham.local) (authen=adridg) by smeltpunt.science.ru.nl (8.13.7/5.11) with ESMTP id l47DXSs2006013; Mon, 7 May 2007 15:33:29 +0200 (MEST) From: Adriaan de Groot Organization: KDE-NL To: Francisco Reyes Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 15:30:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 + Features References: <45CA0331.2090500@sremick.net> <200702072239.38756.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705071530.48338.groot@kde.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building new AM2 system, advice needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:44:48 -0000 On Monday 07 May 2007 14:26:26 Francisco Reyes wrote: > Adriaan de Groot writes: > > I got a Asus M2NPV-VM, mini-ATX board, 4 DIMM slots, VGA D-SUB + DVI out > > onboard, sound HDA (needs patch from Ariff, works a treat), nve also > > supported in 6.2. > > Did the onboard LAN work for that board? nve0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.19 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255 ether 00:17:31:7f:a8:ad media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active Yes. -- KDE Quality Team http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/ GPG: FEA2 A3FE http://people.fruitsalad.org/adridg/ "It is impossible to make an emphatic point with only two arms." From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 23:13:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9E816A408 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 23:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AC413C46C for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 23:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so183152ugh for ; Tue, 08 May 2007 16:13:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=XeilK0jJpg6tcvf1zvpLOtn+tjouPjtWx0mc0DSN4a1KXeS0DiGpUIuIl/ULVjjw84Y+P/IebJxjDFVstUAmGCwjpYpDCXCyeG0K0nbIFc9Z5ueARid0N3kOT109VYyCSckFPyo8+qIOHsifk582rpwjNnqYeIBCPCUgGbizpdM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=RPiRKV5+d15J1XLm1Yy/r5es3SG/W2/NUoiEVUnZpuUxn6no/hul4cmjs4Ebqs1fA9d5kgrpLau/LIl1txMuM9nlt9XWFgfKIP2FjvV3SamUymjsaPBuCQGiXlpyzAtmj32qrcQZegTMYWhhiQxkduacKwqGsN7l0SAWNBToYW0= Received: by 10.82.184.2 with SMTP id h2mr12665630buf.1178664315253; Tue, 08 May 2007 15:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.4 with HTTP; Tue, 8 May 2007 15:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 00:45:14 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 23:13:59 -0000 Hello, I have a dual-boot FreeBSD 6.2/WinXP system that usually runs under FreeBSD, with the exception of when I'm working with and processing photos from my digital camera (Canon 400D/Rebel XTi). In order to store and manage my images, I've purchased two 500GB SATA disks, and would like to set them up in a RAID-1/mirroring configuration. Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for me. Would anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would be well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just something with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) supported by FreeBSD (and Windows). For info - current setup is running on an MSI K8N Neo4 motherboard with an AMD Athlon processor... Any advice, experience, suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance! tom From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 02:21:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5229416A402 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 02:21:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (keira.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C909713C484 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 02:21:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 90784 invoked by uid 2001); 8 May 2007 23:21:14 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 18:21:14 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Thomas Fischer Message-ID: <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 02:21:34 -0000 On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > > Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both > Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for me. Would > anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would be > well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just something > with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) supported by > FreeBSD (and Windows). SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or similar would work: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 I think ataraid(4) supports this metadata format, otherwise if you haven't bought a board yet, get any nForce board with SATA RAID0/1. -- Rick C. Petty From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 02:48:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6DF16A400 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 02:48:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: from kerplunk.tbe.net (kerplunk.tbe.net [209.123.115.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5649C13C45D for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 02:48:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: from kerplunk.tbe.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kerplunk.tbe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D6A5DAF; Tue, 8 May 2007 22:20:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gary@localhost) by kerplunk.tbe.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id l492KIj2022022; Tue, 8 May 2007 22:20:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kerplunk.tbe.net: gary owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 22:20:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: "Rick C. Petty" In-Reply-To: <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> Message-ID: <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Thomas Fischer Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 02:48:27 -0000 On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: >> >> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both >> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for me. Would >> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would be >> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just something >> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) supported by >> FreeBSD (and Windows). > > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > similar would work: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them, and they just work. I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice pretty seriously. -Gary From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 02:56:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF0316A402 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 02:56:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivan@careytech.com.au) Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56E113C43E for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 02:56:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivan@careytech.com.au) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.14,507,1170595800"; d="scan'208,217";a="125139755" Received: from ppp154-213.static.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.2]) ([150.101.154.213]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 09 May 2007 12:26:30 +0930 Message-ID: <4641385E.2010502@careytech.com.au> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 12:56:30 +1000 From: Ivan Carey User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Support for Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5310 CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ivan@careytech.com.au List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 02:56:36 -0000 Hi, Does FreeBSD 6.2 support Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5310 CPU and an Intel Xeon 5320 quad core CPU Regards, Ivan From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 11:35:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6D816A526 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:35:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCB213C4AE for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:35:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so91910mue for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 04:35:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=uhEP65bSvE9IEkP92iLvEDB9ayhjbYQgb96TiW98F0Hd2XvCBZgo093luYlcqtunUqvmJiZDMN9UxUIjrFCrb1fwzsJn5uJ7XM+VvPPgnLCUC+w9tDHMjjAmCgh5ESsyMC4tNC19CkbDZ/JOciOKM7B3GzWZPDRfS1vH34k0kBo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=oacASurwxIcZ2+yjPnq+ZW/7TThVSsxV8zQ0gGQu7mbYeyyh4HsNtXAOLKdNd/QNLXITi3Ey5YsxsWXwwEZm9JGYpCN4E72jUlIFawQqkdVeqlXosOKxlIzCjmTnzW8x2i95ak2sGe7Ht4WGoEWZJ2DnSCvCil9sZy/8ap6P668= Received: by 10.82.151.14 with SMTP id y14mr793651bud.1178710508368; Wed, 09 May 2007 04:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.4 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2007 04:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6651c95f0705090435n633cc6c7ta00d4f841852ffc8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:35:06 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com In-Reply-To: <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:35:11 -0000 Hi Rick, These are Maxtor 500GB drives purchased just a couple of weeks ago, so I assume that they are SATA-II capable... thanks and best regards, tom On 5/9/07, Rick C. Petty wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > > > > Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both > > Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for me. Would > > anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would > be > > well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just something > > with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) supported > by > > FreeBSD (and Windows). > > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > similar would work: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 > > I think ataraid(4) supports this metadata format, otherwise if you haven't > bought a board yet, get any nForce board with SATA RAID0/1. > > -- Rick C. Petty > From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 11:38:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A8216A400 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:38:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CC013C457 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:38:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so261835ugh for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 04:38:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=hoHRPcDVxiFEW+fryJmjwdGgbigoPnxPesx9vvaAp61yyJWAFFHj7AoxsUWzuSsJ7RdSfePvjXP+5lSynSQk8xkAQK+rdhsdnadWDxvNLaRIBPnSh2RwtcB3+MFpDU3XYTprnKAK8vVzhFSgj/RvIbSqhpuK4ktlo0hLa+v+o0o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=auXVVFxrSjeXIacrbBfC6JSb4NhntAgewRr1cvB2ZlzUO3YN4Hbx4fDOHu9/T+KRX0DwoOvoR/micDTOyj+ESaqh7srdw5WCniy4bahXY6TGls179lmmPkfXdfwINGMZ8rkxUMgynqJ852ldy4XxPWOTVvwOkB1CPrSwCP0+OY8= Received: by 10.82.158.12 with SMTP id g12mr829166bue.1178710702254; Wed, 09 May 2007 04:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.4 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2007 04:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6651c95f0705090438t26f425c3sd75e0eea26057752@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:38:21 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" To: "Gary D. Margiotta" In-Reply-To: <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "Rick C. Petty" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:38:24 -0000 Hi Gary, Thanks for your comments - I've found a Highpoint 1640 card at an interesting price - 4 ports, so I have room to expand in the future. Any gotchas with this card as opposed to the 1542 that you've recommended? best regards, tom On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > >> > >> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both > >> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for > me. Would > >> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would > be > >> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just > something > >> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) > supported by > >> FreeBSD (and Windows). > > > > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > > similar would work: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 > > Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in > both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not > the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them, > and they just work. > > I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as > bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren > in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice > pretty seriously. > > -Gary > > From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 14:27:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24FD16A403 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 14:27:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (grnl-static-02-0046.dsl.iowatelecom.net [69.66.56.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 990F413C45B for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 14:27:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l49EHHVr053154; Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l49EHGtL053153; Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:16 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Ivan Carey Message-ID: <20070509141715.GA53142@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <4641385E.2010502@careytech.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4641385E.2010502@careytech.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 09 May 2007 09:17:18 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5310 CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 14:27:33 -0000 --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:56:30PM +1000, Ivan Carey wrote: > Hi, > Does FreeBSD 6.2 support Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5310 CPU and an Intel Xeon= =20 > 5320 quad core CPU I can't speak to the specific numbers, but we've run a couple different Quad-Core Xeons in testing at work and they seem to work well. -- Broks --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGQdfrXY6L6fI4GtQRAjNKAJ9u7WSfZam/x5MhukCNkCsfrOU1ZQCgmmm6 rYh5hzTGsBWNIggtSq0vLCU= =fG3v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc-- From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 15:37:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F3816A400 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 15:37:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: from kerplunk.tbe.net (kerplunk.tbe.net [209.123.115.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B9E13C448 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 15:37:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: from kerplunk.tbe.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kerplunk.tbe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7325D5D4D; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:31:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gary@localhost) by kerplunk.tbe.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id l49FVXiJ029623; Wed, 9 May 2007 11:31:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kerplunk.tbe.net: gary owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:31:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Thomas Fischer In-Reply-To: <6651c95f0705090438t26f425c3sd75e0eea26057752@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070509111039.C17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> <6651c95f0705090438t26f425c3sd75e0eea26057752@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Rick C. Petty" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:37:35 -0000 > Hi Gary, > > Thanks for your comments - I've found a Highpoint 1640 card at an > interesting price - 4 ports, so I have room to expand in the future. Any > gotchas with this card as opposed to the 1542 that you've recommended? No gotcha's at all. I have a bunch of 1640's sitting on the shelf that I just got a good deal on, and I've already rolled a few of them out. They work pretty well for my needs, light e-mail, webserver, file server, etc. I will mention this - in my experience, the CPU utilization on a Windows system will be much higher comparitively than a BSD system running these cards. I have a couple windows file servers which hit about 6MB/s file transfers at about 40% CPU utilization, meanwhile similarly configured BSD systems will push 8-9MB/s at about 20-30% utilization. Now, these are older systems (AMD Athlons at around 1Ghz), but it is nice to see how well the BSD systems work, especially on older hardware. -Gary > best regards, > > tom > > On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: >> >> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: >> >> > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: >> >> >> >> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both >> >> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for >> me. Would >> >> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would >> be >> >> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just >> something >> >> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) >> supported by >> >> FreeBSD (and Windows). >> > >> > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or >> > similar would work: >> > >> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 >> >> Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in >> both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not >> the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them, >> and they just work. >> >> I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as >> bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren >> in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice >> pretty seriously. >> >> -Gary >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 16:50:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D044E16A400 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 16:50:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCD113C455 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 16:50:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so314125ugh for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 09:50:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FmH3HwAvscNOxBNBlEkaZ9RM8Tnc1JRxqJO0G3uwCRqqM0Tn9NfwJ6Q6eocU3yer/dOr/Qg1d7VgwOqdem5E2qFXltbGtXhp9IdqTf2yM/XIMWc7RtFvDgkP+90h+MLnuyfyJFcKVJFd0tplUNwrlAySSsq8O4QqM/DN6sHu//8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VmavL/8L9487EDHAODN7Aeu/XurZdUbjGKQUOOun2DFfTGRVLCc8fD+ngpN/RJi7spWa8sCtu6uvQ1AAnAm5D4sM6aLWEYd1h0dhxmXTVYLBJMjiSw8sLWjyIVF9ovRx75Z3J6XEzAjxj+3pWZY+9/S7dmMgJ7U8N27SFM51m6c= Received: by 10.82.146.14 with SMTP id t14mr1404381bud.1178729456823; Wed, 09 May 2007 09:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.4 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2007 09:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6651c95f0705090950l11d2bf52g86a7d2345b812cab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 18:50:56 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" To: "Gary D. Margiotta" In-Reply-To: <20070509111039.C17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> <6651c95f0705090438t26f425c3sd75e0eea26057752@mail.gmail.com> <20070509111039.C17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> Cc: "Rick C. Petty" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:50:58 -0000 Hi Gary, Thanks for this information - looks like I'm going to be investing in one of these cards as well :-)... best regards, tom On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > Hi Gary, > > > > Thanks for your comments - I've found a Highpoint 1640 card at an > > interesting price - 4 ports, so I have room to expand in the future. Any > > gotchas with this card as opposed to the 1542 that you've recommended? > > No gotcha's at all. I have a bunch of 1640's sitting on the shelf that I > just got a good deal on, and I've already rolled a few of them out. They > work pretty well for my needs, light e-mail, webserver, file server, etc. > > I will mention this - in my experience, the CPU utilization on a Windows > system will be much higher comparitively than a BSD system running these > cards. I have a couple windows file servers which hit about 6MB/s file > transfers at about 40% CPU utilization, meanwhile similarly configured BSD > systems will push 8-9MB/s at about 20-30% utilization. Now, these are > older systems (AMD Athlons at around 1Ghz), but it is nice to see how well > the BSD systems work, especially on older hardware. > > -Gary > > > > best regards, > > > > tom > > > > On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both > >> >> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for > >> me. Would > >> >> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would > >> be > >> >> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just > >> something > >> >> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) > >> supported by > >> >> FreeBSD (and Windows). > >> > > >> > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > >> > similar would work: > >> > > >> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 > >> > >> Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in > >> both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not > >> the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them, > >> and they just work. > >> > >> I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as > >> bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren > >> in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice > >> pretty seriously. > >> > >> -Gary > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 21:15:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA84416A400 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from schitzo.solgatos.com (pool-71-117-239-32.ptldor.fios.verizon.net [71.117.239.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E4313C459 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from schitzo.solgatos.com (localhost.home.localnet [127.0.0.1]) by schitzo.solgatos.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l49KmmiZ003138 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 13:48:48 -0700 Received: from sopwith.solgatos.com (uucp@localhost) by schitzo.solgatos.com (8.13.8/8.13.4/Submit) with UUCP id l49KmmRb003135 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 May 2007 13:48:48 -0700 Received: from localhost by sopwith.solgatos.com (8.8.8/6.24) id UAA07122; Wed, 9 May 2007 20:27:22 GMT Message-Id: <200705092027.UAA07122@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 13:27:22 +0100 From: Dieter Subject: Recommended SATA controllers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 21:15:14 -0000 Looking for some form of SATA controller with good support. Currently running FreeBSD 6.2. Bonus points if it also works well with NetBSD & Linux (machine triple boots). I don't need RAID. Has there been any progress getting a driver working for Silicon Image 3124? Or any SATA controller with NCQ? Do any of the USB to SATA controllers work well under FreeBSD? Or 1394/firewire to SATA? PCI slots are full. PCIe-x1, USB-2, firewire-400 available. From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 11 16:11:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DBB16A4C9 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 16:11:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reget@ametikool.ee) Received: from mail.ametikool.ee (mail.ametikool.ee [193.40.166.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBFEA13C45B for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 16:11:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reget@ametikool.ee) Received: from mail.ametikool.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ametikool.ee (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4BFxnSo024530 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 18:59:49 +0300 Received: (from apache@localhost) by mail.ametikool.ee (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l4BFxmSU024529; Fri, 11 May 2007 18:59:48 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ametikool.ee: apache set sender to reget@ametikool.ee using -f Received: from 88.196.24.30 (SquirrelMail authenticated user reget) by mail.ametikool.ee with HTTP; Fri, 11 May 2007 18:59:48 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <51256.88.196.24.30.1178899188.squirrel@mail.ametikool.ee> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:59:48 +0300 (EEST) From: reget@ametikool.ee To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-4.fc6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Ametikool-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Ametikool-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Ametikool-MailScanner-From: reget@ametikool.ee X-Spam-Status: No Subject: i915 drm error X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:11:18 -0000 Hi! Problem is i915.ko kernel module error message: drm0: on vgapci0 [drm:pid0:drm_load] [drm:pid0:drm_agp_init] agp_available = 0 error: [drm:pid0:drm_load] *ERROR* Card isn't AGP, or couldn't initialize AGP. [drm:pid0:drm_lastclose] device_attach: drm0 attach returned 12 I tryed different ways to load module (compiled into kernel, compiled module and load after boot and compile module and load in loader.conf, last one - i compiled drm with debbuging) , but error is same. Additional information: dmesg http://opilane.ametikool.ee/~reget/FreeBSD/dmesg FreeBSD current version is 70039 Kernel conf http://opilane.ametikool.ee/~reget/FreeBSD/minutuum make.conf http://opilane.ametikool.ee/~reget/FreeBSD/make.conf Best regards! Reget -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.