From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 16:42:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E1C16A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:42:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geralddelapascua@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF7A43D48 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:42:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geralddelapascua@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x4so186467nfb for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:42:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=LiiwRwXRpQJlh+wcSoJkyaNkm+4waTnXKBDe+lnHSpRDLIWGH1zaC3iywAQv/SakNEDTwcz6By3DioZhIqDF2VcfELVX+JwhQ3DAOs/tlPVMRiAx7d8UlcV8OnMoPV5VcdUoLYBzieh5+8F+HWu2D/TDfmyOxT614I9upTx5vZ8= Received: by 10.48.142.15 with SMTP id p15mr129051nfd; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.108.13 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1bcf5ef90510060942q19c4ec60p1a17f93cecd4d6bd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:42:26 +0100 From: Gerald de la Pascua To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Abit AW8 / Pentium D and 3ware raid cards compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gerald@homes-on-line.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:42:29 -0000 I posted a few weeks back regarding problems making the aw8 board, work with a 3ware card 7006-2, the system wouldn't boot at all, after much discussion with 3ware they said, sorry nothing we can do, cannot offer an alternative suggested card, so I was about to change the mother board, infact 3ware were unaware of any motherboard which worked with their cards, which also worked with a pentiumD chip, which to be hones= t I wasn't very impressed with since pentiumD isn't that exotic technology. however ABIT have now issued 1.3 bios for the motherboard, (I had looked o= n the site an installed 1.2 already ), With this it works fine, the only issue I had were some acpi errors, so I disabled acpi, since it is a server this doesn't seem to be too much of an issue to me, the machine seems to run significantly faster than the old pentium2.8single core, it is difficult to asses the value for money of the machine, although the pentiumD is a similar price to the normal pentiums, the mother boards are significantly more expensive, however if you just want good performance and you don't mind spending a hundred pounds or so more, I would say its definitely worth it, I hope this is of some help to other users, if you would like clarificatio= n on anything, I am happy to give more info, kind regards, Gerald