From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 2 23:22:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22313 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 23:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (root@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22308 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 23:22:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA13785 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 01:22:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 01:22:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon X-Sender: cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us Reply-To: Chris Dillon To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SuperMicro P6DLH Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, some may be familiar with the thread I started asking wether some Industrial Computer Source hardware would work fine with FreeBSD. Since the price tag on that stuff is so high, I decided to look again for more mainstream alternatives. I started looking at SuperMicro's site for motherboards for the first time in a long time, and found they had one with 9 slots, which isn't too badly priced according to what I found on PriceWatch. The board has 5 "primary" and 4 "secondary" PCI slots. Wether this means it uses a standard PCI-PCI bridge or dual host-PCI bridges, or something different entirely (using the I2O procesor?) I don't know. I know FreeBSD doesn't support I2O yet (if ever?), but that shouldn't keep it from running, I hope. So, has anyone used FreeBSD with this board successfully? Any caveats? -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message