Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:02:56 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Pete Gontier <kokorozashi@gontier.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iDOT iBox Slim PC Message-ID: <20030213110256.GG96082@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <BA70B990.3964E%kokorozashi@gontier.org> References: <BA705C66.395D6%kokorozashi@gontier.org> <BA70B990.3964E%kokorozashi@gontier.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:55:12AM -0800, Pete Gontier wrote: > 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. I really don't know much about the different EPIA models, but check this page: http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/ And any related threads on -hackers (in the archives). Matthew Dillon was busy with a motherboard from the same line at least. HTH, --Stijn -- "...I like logs. They give me a warm fuzzy feeling. I've been known to keep logs for 30 months at a time (generally when I thought I was rotating them daily, but was actually rotating them once a month)." -- Michael Lucas, in Big Scary Daemons article 'Controlling Bandwidth' [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+S3tgY3r/tLQmfWcRAuljAJ4ttMX3lJInLLoM/yo5oy3hkM0ghQCfRq9q P30W2DdbxdQm6wlQ7B8Xprw= =89Op -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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