From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 13:55:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 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 9CF8416A41C for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A61E43D1F for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:55:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5LDtjEm015402; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:55:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5LDti8H017804; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:55:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j5LDtiEC017803; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:55:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:55:44 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: James Seward Message-ID: <20050621135544.GC587@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20050621131824.GF47533@yomi.jamesoff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050621131824.GF47533@yomi.jamesoff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard Recommendation 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: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:55:51 -0000 --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:18:24PM +0100, James Seward wrote: > It's upgrade time, and a friend is donating me an Athlon64; all I need > to do is choose a motherboard to put it on (and carry the rest of my > existing hardware over). >=20 > My only requirement is that SATA works. My current setup (with an > SI3112) encounters DMA timeouts regularly on the SATA disks leading to > slowdowns, instability, and (in one case) a trashed partition. I don't > care about RAID, I'm not going to be using GEOM or anything like that, I > just want to plug my disks (Maxtor DiamondMax9s) into it and have it > work. >=20 > Can anyone recommend, preferably backed up by personal experience, a > motherboard or chipset which reliably works with FreeBSD and SATA? :) > Maybe http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html will help you. Marc --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCuBxfzQ9RwE+OdOgRAjb6AJ47HSBfn9PCWf+lgov06AY8sm+qQQCgt1dX vGkm1QQHbbxARvJj5N71Srk= =zAp9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx--