From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 01:27:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C2A1065675 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:27:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephane.lapie@darkbsd.org) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (shinigami.darkbsd.org [82.227.96.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77E38FC15 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A20451A0 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:27:36 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; s=selector1; bh=Aj2MPzQn2BIW3W9W44Ht+s39Jpc=; b=U CqlBmxjk22RjxwAFHiRcSuBHq8upNeTjpdHgmX4t5HxATMmi6LDVWB9Dv2pJWOnT Xy/oFo6dG78fRLQWRmNVrR3ARmriNrC0LDlRvlL7Pt1kXahzPbwMr1Vs4XISNo5L aoJprumN05QTi3rm8h3l81Y9UzPLEkYHF7e+KoBIIs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; q=dns; s=selector1; b=f4ucrb7SvnuNtrjkPicycW09nOY DMmnycP4beaNy+uxwzeBvCWjmDCqSQWSnuYs81NZ/oV5xSS28L2s3AYhnqhGMg1J eKGYNsVX1e6EccV70xPXFBYelr+XGUFX4LLu9d2AYpnQib3o8RR/hWrGPoKQA4dz Bc4l6Fxa7AYi8dIk= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=darkbsd.org; h= content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:subject :mime-version:user-agent:from:from:date:date:message-id:received :received; s=selector1; t=1289352452; bh=ITw/a6brIP01XSclZk4Bdt/ abALIfgu+lOmv9+2mET8=; b=uHYKL9SwcgD69qfpnkQ0pbFYeLyB51BozE4VoET RdhlA1lL0KYMDay2vBJvYOjnj0pZziONiKz6k6YJNrqKR2TG3OQMrcAZWZb114af 6RfS9I6QdLGkdu3lfGqqDQAVNX9dFNhTZAJo2gPZmPcMnmT6i9BJGotHX9p80nW0 2lvI= Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (quasar.darkbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Obers4QSFBXU for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:27:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.162.153] (unknown [210.188.173.245]) (Authenticated sender: darksoul) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 672685199 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:27:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4CD9F4F6.3020804@darkbsd.org> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:27:18 +0900 From: Stephane LAPIE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <8CD4E5BF8456212-978-828@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <8CD4E5BF8456212-978-828@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig39554B1962D11156A4BD03D1" Subject: Re: 12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:27:38 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig39554B1962D11156A4BD03D1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/10/2010 04:32 AM, dieterbsd@engineer.com wrote: >>> And I just noticed on the Newegg.com photos of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 that >>> for disk activity there doesn't seem to be a ground pin for each=20 > disk, >>> just one common ground pin. Which, for me at least, sucks because all= >>> of the disk activity LEDs in my chassis have their own ground wire=20 > and >>> are terminated in duplex headers, not the split headers. >> >> - The optional BIOS ROMs don't play nice with other extension cards=20 > you >> might have on a busy system. You might want to disable them and leave >> the disk initialization to FreeBSD. >=20 > How does one disable the BIOS ROMs on expansion cards? Is this > specific to the AOC-SAT2-MV8, or can you do this on the mainboard? > Sounds like the sort of thing they would hide in the mainboard BIOS > somewhere. I have a couple of JMB363 cards that I think would work > better without the BIOS ROMs. Unfortunately I have never run across > any sort of "turn off expansion card BIOS ROM" option. Yes, you should be able to disable this from the mainboard by saying you don't want to use the Option ROM on Slot #X. --=20 Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo --------------enig39554B1962D11156A4BD03D1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzZ9PcACgkQ24Ql8u6TF2N5OQCfZ3EExFk4qz/gtaOH2NEqqKyc E4oAn37vuiai1wo03HtJypWX5T9Dtg4w =E7zo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig39554B1962D11156A4BD03D1--