From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 13:01:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5506916A400 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:01:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@hosting50.cz) Received: from shinzon.blueboard.cz (shinzon.blueboard.cz [217.11.249.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7741443D46 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:01:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@hosting50.cz) Received: (qmail 7919 invoked by uid 89); 18 Mar 2006 13:01:06 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 7913, pid: 7915, t: 0.3363s scanners: clamav: 0.88/m:36/d:1315 spam: 3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on shinzon.blueboard.cz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.30?) (tomas@blueboard.cz@217.11.239.236) by shinzon.blueboard.cz with SMTP; 18 Mar 2006 13:01:05 -0000 Message-ID: <441C0492.5090007@hosting50.cz> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:01:06 +0100 From: Tomas Randa User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: cs, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <44172AC5.8070400@skyhawk.ca> In-Reply-To: <44172AC5.8070400@skyhawk.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Motherboard for new Socket 939 fileserver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:01:10 -0000 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"