From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 12:55:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E562E16A41F for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:55:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mschulma@isoc.org) Received: from minerva.net (mail.minerva.net [206.131.230.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB6343D45 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:55:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mschulma@isoc.org) Received: from [68.98.143.38] (account mschulma@isoc.org) by minerva.net (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 4.1.4) with HTTP id 37171897 for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:50:01 -0400 From: To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.1.4 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:50:01 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Follow-up - K8T890 where everything works (Soltek, recommended) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:55:43 -0000 Based on Mike's message, I also purchased the Soltek SL-K890Pro-939. I plugged two SATA drives into the onboard Promise RAID controller ports, used the configuration tools built-in to the BIOS to build a RAID 1 array, and was able to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto ar0 without a hitch. (The installer also listed ad4 and ad6 as optional installation targets.) By unplugged one drive at a time, I confirmed the system would boot off either remaining drive. I'm not sure I'll use this in production - the geom-based mirroring provides a lot of useful mirror status information, and can rebuild a disk while the OS is running, but it does work on this motherboard. Marty