From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 12:00:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E5D16A4D1 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:00:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776BF43D45 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:00:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-hardware@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CrxSu-0001Yn-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:00:36 +0100 Received: from 49.64.142.82.ip.b26.cz ([82.142.64.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:00:36 +0100 Received: from bati by 49.64.142.82.ip.b26.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:00:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Jiri Novak Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:45:11 +0100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 49.64.142.82.ip.b26.cz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Sender: news Subject: Server motherboard question X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:00:38 -0000 Hello, I have been assigned a task of choosing motherboard for our "next generation" server, and I need a little advice. After a week of surfing through hw compatibility list and mobo manufacturers websites I have came to conclusion that I don't know enough of current PC hardware :) This is what is required: CPU - AMD(64?) maybe dual Disk subsystem - SATA, HW RAID would be nice (0 is sufficient, 0+1 would be better), but I can easily replace that with (g)vinum Network adapter - definitely gigabit ethernet, dual would be nice Memory - about 2-4Gigs of RAM Can anybody recommend a motherboard which will not have any problems with FreeBSD 5.3 and have those outlined features? I came with some boards from MSI (MSI K8D Master3-133 and MSI K8N Neo4-Platinum), which have what I need, but I'm sceptical about chipset support in FreeBSD, anybody usess them? I generally also like Tyan motherboards (f.ex. Thunder K7X Pro, Tiger K8W(S)...), again, anybody using these boards with FreeBSD? I would like to make up about 4-5 solutions from single Athlon to dual Opteron and let our management choose the right one price-wise :) TIA! -- Jiri Novak