Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:41:45 -0500 From: Brian Costello <btx@mojo.calyx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE on the intel 875 or 865-series chipsets Message-ID: <20031212134145.GA19866@mojo.calyx.net>
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Hi, I posted a question about FreeBSD on Shuttle hardware yesterday, but figured my subject line might've been too vague for people to recognize. Anyway, I am wondering if FreeBSD 4.x will work with drives hooked into either of those chipsets' onboard SATA. Specifically, the harddrives are western digital 10,000rpm serial ata drives, and I wonder if FreeBSD can handle booting off of them. I imagine that FreeBSD doesn't support serial ata natively, but I'd think there would be some sort of compatibility mode. Has anyone had success with this using the intel 875 and 865 series chipsets? Are there any other issues with that chipset and FreeBSD 4.x that I should be aware of? Note: I'm only interested in booting the system - if that means the drives have to run in polling mode, or ATA-33 or without ultra-DMA, so be it - I just want to know if that config CAN work. I read on the linux mailing lists that this exact config DOES work on linux 2.4 kernels, in some sort of compatibility mode. Will this be usable on FreeBSD as well? Thank you, bc
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