From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 2:55:16 2003 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 2069E37B406 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.gontier.org (adsl-66-125-148-58.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [66.125.148.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA6E943F3F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:55:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kokorozashi@gontier.org) Received: (qmail 23377 invoked by uid 0); 13 Feb 2003 10:55:13 -0000 Received: from adsl-66-125-148-59.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO ?66.125.148.59?) (66.125.148.59) by adsl-66-125-148-58.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net with SMTP; 13 Feb 2003 10:55:13 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.4 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:55:12 -0800 Subject: Re: iDOT iBox Slim PC From: Pete Gontier To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I found a page for the chip set for this machine: http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_mini_itx_spec.jsp?motherboardId=21 My reading of: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-i386.html ...does not indicate goodness. The OpenBSD story is slightly better; it claims to support ATA. It seems not entirely unreasonable to assume that many functions of the chip set are clones, more or less, of popular chips, but without getting my hands on the machine so I can boot from CD and run dmesg, I'm wary. And in any case a clone still must demonstrate its quality. Maybe it's time to break down and check into Linux. -- Pete Gontier "I'm not exactly in the mood for Mozart and all THAT kind of goings-on." -- InSoc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message