From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 24 04:06:01 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 2CADE16A41F for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:06:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rp_freebsd@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A51813C45A for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:06:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rp_freebsd@mac.com) Received: from webmail032 (webmail032-s [10.13.128.32]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/smtpout12/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id l5O3o437016487 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:50:04 -0700 From: Ravi Pokala To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 67.170.251.81 Received: from [67.170.251.81] from webmail.mac.com with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:50:04 -0700 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Subject: Looking for a motherboard with lots of SATA ports, supported in 6.2-STABLE 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, 24 Jun 2007 04:06:01 -0000 Hi folks, The motherboard in my home server recently toasted itself, so it's time to go shopping for a new one. I don't like the bleeding edge enough to run -CURRENT, so I'm looking for something that's supported by 6.2-STABLE. I'm okay with doing simple MFCs to pull down a few drivers if needed. My main concerns are that the networking is well supported (GigE preferred of course), and that there are lots of supported on-board SATA ports. I currently have four SATA drives, so I'd prefer six or eight ports on the new board for growth. I don't care too much whether the new board is for Intel or AMD CPUs, as long as it supports dual-core CPUs. I can order ECC DIMMs cheap from work, so that's preferred but by no means necessary. I'd also like decent on-board graphics, on the off chance I want to dual-boot it to play some older games. In FreeBSD, it just needs to be supported enough to give me a VGA console. I'd like to keep it under $150 for the motherboard. Any suggestions? Many thanks, --rp