Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:01:06 +0100 From: Tomas Randa <lists@hosting50.cz> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard for new Socket 939 fileserver Message-ID: <441C0492.5090007@hosting50.cz> In-Reply-To: <44172AC5.8070400@skyhawk.ca> References: <44172AC5.8070400@skyhawk.ca>
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Hello, my suggestions: Disable Spread Spectrum in BIOS Upgrade to latest RELENG_6 Connect SATA drives on chipset SATA ports. Do not use Nvidia RAID for mirror, disable it in BIOS and use FreeBSD PseudoRAID - ataraid with FreeBSD metadata, for RAID1 is not necessarily use RAID capable controller, simply do atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6 etc... Tomas Randa Andrew Fremantle napsal(a): > Hi all, > > I've been tasked with setting up a new FreeBSD network file server. > I've been spending the last day fighting an ASUS A8N-VM CSM > motherboard, and I've given up on that hopeless battle. The ACPI is > horribly broken, the ethernet and PATA/SATA aren't supported on > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, FreeBSD 6-STABLE recognises the disk controllers > but then hits a bug that prevents it from using one of the disks, I've > had enough. I was prepared to tough it out with the ATA/33 limit on > the generic controller support, until a future release properly > supports them, but this morning the machine started throwing "DANGER > Will Robinson" messages regarding the SATA drives. > > I have a preference for nVidia chipsets, but if there's something else > that will work and has decent FreeBSD support I'll take it. > > Here are my requirements > Socket 939 > At least four SATA headers > (preferably) At least two PATA headers > PCIe Gigabit Ethernet > > Reliable ATA system operation on the board is a MUST! This machine's > primary purpose is going to be reading and writing those drives! Those > damned UDMA timeouts and other ATA problems I've seen cropping up > randomly over the last two years are NOT acceptable. > > After troubleshooting the nVidia RAID on this motherboard, and reading > online about these "fake RAID" implementations, I'm pretty much > planning on sticking with FreeBSD's "Pseudo-RAID". Can anyone offer > any feedback on the reliability of FreeBSD's "Pseudo-RAID" system? > > Just in case anyone's interested, here are the rest of the components > that will be used with the system. > Seasonic 430w S12 powersupply > Western Digital 80G PATA drive > Pioneer PATA DVD Multidrive > 2 x Seagate 7200.9 300GB SATA drives (mirrored) in > a SNT-3141-SATA 4-drive SATA enclosure (Not sure who made this) > > Any feedback would be much appreciated. I'm desperate to avoid jumping > to Linux on this one, because I know that will turn into a huge pain > in the ass later on. > > - Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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