From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 16 13:16:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 315AF16A41C for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:16:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9170043D45 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:16:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from pooh.nagual.st (pooh.nagual.st [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:16:50 +0200 Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:17:01 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsdq Message-Id: <20050716151701.5ecb6b10.dick@nagual.st> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: motherboard fbsd 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:16:55 -0000 I read the pages about supported hardware. It dazzles me. I want to buy a new motherboard. I will run FreeBSD-5.4 (and later on v6.x) on it. No fancy stuff like raid. Just plenty of memory and good performance and fbsd support tothe fullest(!). >From what I understand there are still some problems with AMD64 boards. Still, 64bits is the future.. so is it better to wait a while, _or_ are there *good* supported motherboards for amd64? Maybe it's better to stay with Intel and FreeBSD? And about harddisks: is it true that fbsd support for ATA harddisks is better / more robust than for SATA drives? I need some *concrete* advice. The rest of the hardware will be a lesser problem. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja