Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:23 +0000 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine Message-ID: <1133190443.41553.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org> References: <61FBEC57-424E-450F-A775-10E1F5E8DF92@cian.ws> <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org>
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On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:55 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Cian Hughes wrote on Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:55:02PM +0000: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hey, I'm in no rush on this one, but I'm planning on building a new > > Athlon AMD64 machine, It's primarily as a voip server and file > > storage box for home use and will have 8 SATA (possibly SATA-II) > > drives attached to a RAID 5 card, probably Highpoint (but i'm open on > > this). > > > > I am wondering, what have people on this list built recently, within > > these bounds, I'm looking to choose a motherboard with one or two > > 1000Base-T Ethernet ports (to keep PCI's free for other things, ISDN > > card, TV Tuner, etc...), if possible what has and hasn't worked, i'm > > not too worried about onboard HD controllers, etc. > > I have a DFI SLI-DRI which is NForce 4 based and I am overall amazed > how well it works. In particular the SATA controller (only tested the > first 4 ports). Out of interest, does FreeBSD correctly notice the hot-inserting of SATA drives on this board? I'm fighting with an NForce 4 based system at the moment which notices the hot removal but needs a reboot before it notices a new drive has been inserted (under FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris). Gavin
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