From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 01:11:28 2004 Return-Path: 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 5B56416A4CE for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 01:11:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from bigtex.jrv.org (rrcs-sw-24-73-246-106.biz.rr.com [24.73.246.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA64643D2F for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 01:11:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@bigtex.jrv.org) Received: from bigtex.jrv.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bigtex.jrv.org (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i139Aso8031890 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:10:54 -0600 (CST) Received: (from james@localhost) by bigtex.jrv.org (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id i139AOpU031887; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:10:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:10:24 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200402030910.i139AOpU031887@bigtex.jrv.org> From: James Van Artsdalen To: billsf@curacao.n2it.nl In-reply-to: <20040203070905.GA18274@curacao.n2it.nl> (message from Bill Squire on Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:09:05 +0100) References: <200402030453.i134rAFC006940@bigtex.jrv.org> <20040203070905.GA18274@curacao.n2it.nl> cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 29320? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 03 Feb 2004 09:11:28 -0000 > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:09:05 +0100 > From: Bill Squire > > Keep hearing about "Win64". Those few I know who develop on that platform > or maintain Windows servers say its quite a farce (remember NT on Alpha?) Well, it is Windows. What can I say? 32-bit Windows makes a good X11 server and it's handy to keep one around for clients who might be scared if they saw vi. I keep a matrix of four disks with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and FreeBSD for testing. It's usually desirable to not report a bug if it happens in all four environments. > Maybe give it a try but i'd suggest a better SCSI host adapter. I'm after a controller that works in all four test environments and can directly address more than 4 GB. I'd prefer serial ATA but there are none yet. SCSI is a last resort. I'm willing to use a different controller. But when two new PCI-X cards fail like this I'm suspicious of the Tyan's AMI BIOS, which I consider suspect. That BIOS might be programming the PCI-X bridge wrongly, hence my curiosity as to whether anyone has gotten the 29320, or any other PCI-X card for that matter, to work in the K8W S2885. > Highpoint apparently supplies FreeBSD > drivers. I hear > 3ware works well and Promise seems 'promising' for SATA RAID. (and > quite cheap too) Anyone use the Promise SATA 150 TX4 ? That HighPoint cannot directly address more than 4 GB of RAM and I have 8 GB. Likewise for Promise. The 3ware driver may not support 3ware's sATA card and in any case that driver doesn't support more 4 GB (requires the use of bound buffers). HighPoint's Rocket Raid-1820 is PCI-X and probably can address the entire memory space. But this is supposedly based on the Marvel chip and what drivers HighPoint has seem to be binary only, useless. SuperMicro's PCI-X sATA supposedly uses the same chip, without the boot ROM.