Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:50:02 +0000 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia chipsets? Message-ID: <200612111950.TAA27964@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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> MBO DFI, s. AM2, Infinity nF-M2I, nFORCE 4, Is this the same nFORCE 4 used on the socket 939 boards? I have a 939 with "nforce 4 ultra". (ultra means it supports SATA's NCQ queueing) I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on it. > Do ATA & SATA ports, ethernet and sound work? The nforce Ethernet works, but I've only used it for a few minutes, and didn't stress it at all. I haven't tried sound with FreeBSD. PATA and SATA work. It can read from 4 SATA disks at once as fast as the data comes off the platters (65-70MB/s at the fast end of the platters). I'm running soft updates and have the disks' write cache in write-through mode to avoid scrambled filesystems. In write-through mode I get about 6-7 MB/s. If anyone knows how to turn on SATA NCQ, please let me know. But there is a problem. Writing to one drive slows down writes to an unrelated drive. (I'm not using any form of RAID.) See the "processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O" thread in -questions for more info on this problem. At this point I don't know if this problem has anything to do with the nforce chip or not. > What about an ATI graphics card? My board has an onboard ATI chip. Xorg seems happy with it, but ATI doesn't support sync-on-green, so it is useless with my monitor. The nforce USB works, although I haven't stressed it.
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