Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:08:39 -0700 (PDT) From: dave h <davehbsd@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Athlon64 Motherboards Message-ID: <20050721070839.34690.qmail@web34015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Hi, I am shopping for a new motherboard for an Athlon64 motherboard that will be used for a FreeBSD system. However, I have concerns that some integrated devices are not supported such as IDE,SATA,NIC. From exhausting research, I've came up very limited information. I cannot afford server class motherboards so I would like a motherboard thats within a $50-100 price range. I have a few picked out so far: MSI K8T Neo-V Abit KV8 Pro (motherboard features are an overkill) ECS K8T800-A All these boards listed are of K8T800 (some are K8T800 Pro) chipsets. My question is, what issues will I have with compatibility? The MSI for example has an onboard Realtek 8201 that doesn't seem to be supported in FreeBSD (according to HARDWARE.TXT). More imporantly, will the ATA and SATA devices work on these (or any boards you may suggest)? All thats really needed is the ATA/SATA and NIC to be functional. If you have any other suggestion for a Socket 754 board, please reply. I do not need anything fancy, just a simple FreeBSD system that will be serving files and webpages. Thanks for your time. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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