From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 17 12:09:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE18E16A406 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:09:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@superhero.nl) Received: from superman.superhero.nl (superhero.nl [213.84.142.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C49313C46B for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:09:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@superhero.nl) Received: (qmail 79689 invoked by uid 80); 17 Feb 2007 11:42:20 -0000 Received: from 85.119.16.197 (SquirrelMail authenticated user gelsemap) by www.superhero.nl with HTTP; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:42:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <36400.85.119.16.197.1171712540.squirrel@www.superhero.nl> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:42:20 +0100 (CET) From: "Gelsema, P \(Patrick\) - FreeBSD" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: ASUS M2n - AMD64 supported by FreeBSD 6.2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:09:02 -0000 Dear list, i am currently deciding on hardware for a server at home which will manage my email (Mailtoaster), website, dns, dhcp and samba. It will replace 2 boxes. The load is currently average 0.4 on a Dual Pentium 3 800mhz (thats the old mailserver - FreeBSD 5.4) and the other is just a windows 2003 file/ad/dns server. So no need for a lot of muscle. I don't want to buy the bleeding edge and not the most expensive stuff. I want reliable equipment which also doesnt generate a lot of heat and noise. (Picky, i know ;-) ) At the moment I have come up with the following: * Asus M2N with nVidia NForce 430 chipset * AMD Athlon 64 X2 EE 3800+ * 2 Gigabyte of memory (DDR2 800mhz) * Adaptec 390320D SCSI for systemdisks (3 x U320 15k drives (got these spare - better use them) * 4 x 500GB SATA 2 drives from Western Digital (Raid 5) I got the following questions; Question 1: is the SATA2 Raid 5 setup supported for the Nvidia 430 chipset? In my searches in basically all lists of Freebsd it seems there were "issues" reported? Question 2: Is the Hostraid functionality of the Adaptec card supported by FreeBSD? For windows boxes additional software is required, will it be supported out of the box by FreeBSD? Question 3: Nvidia Nforce5 is this supported by FreeBSD 6.2 and will I be able to build a RAID 5 set and use this in FreeBSD? I have seen emails in lists which show issues. Of course any suggestions regarding hardware is also appreciated. Many thanks for allowing me to use your bandwidth! Regards, Patrick