Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:02:56 +0900 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tommi_L=E4tti?= <sty@iki.fi> To: Brian Myers <tarkawebfoot@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New board for a newbie Message-ID: <41CB78D0.4060101@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <5B1511FA-5540-11D9-AF1F-000A95B96642@charter.net> References: <5B1511FA-5540-11D9-AF1F-000A95B96642@charter.net>
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Brian Myers wrote: > 2) I've seen much conversation on which boards, memory, and SATA > controllers were supported by FreeBSD. So much so that I have no idea > what the current state of things is. So, if you were building a new dual > Opteron from scratch, what would you get? For cost reasons, I'm going > with 1.8 ghz processors and probably only 2GB of ram. I'll have two RAID > 1 SATA hard drives, but should I use an onboard controller, or purchase > a separate controller? Note that I may at some point upgrade to 4 RAID > 0+1 disks. What about video cards? I don't need much so, are the onboard > ones useable or not? Also, I, of course, would like the onboard LAN > controller to be supported. Well, I just went from dual p3 to dual opteron. The machine is in housing facility and has been rock solid since it's installation 2 months ago. For MB I used Tyan K8S Pro. Not the cheapest one around but I require stability and Tyan uses good components. Memory is 4x512M ECC Reg from Kingston. The memory modules were listed on AMD website (the same series was listed...). I also got 2x37G Barracudas (SATA) and used the boards SATA controller to attach them. I then used gmirror to build raid-1 out of them. Booting from that array works just nicely. As the machine is in housing, I really don't care about video controller, the integrated one serves just nicely as the console video. All three of the on-board NIC's are usable. Don't know about gigabit performance since I didn't need one. -- br, Sty
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