Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:21:04 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: se@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, bu7cher@yandex.ru, toomany@toomany.net Subject: Re: Need motherboard for home fileserver Message-ID: <200711120421.lAC4L42I000678@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <470A2B0C.2020502@FreeBSD.org>
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On 8 Oct, Stefan Esser wrote: > Andrey V. Elsukov schrieb: >> TooMany Secrets wrote: >>> 2007/10/8, Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>: >>>> Well, you may want to take a look at the Abit AN-M2 (or -M2HD, if you >>>> are interested in firewire support, or possibly in HDMI/HDCP). All >>>> functions appear to be well supported (disk, video, sound, integrated >>>> PCIe Gigabit Ethernet). Combined with an "Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro >>>> PWM" it gives a cheap, compact, and quiet (and power-efficient!) small >>>> server with quite good performance (though with only a limited number >>>> of PCIe and PCI slots, since it has a uATX form factor). >>> >>> I'm very interested in this mb, but is correctly supported in >>> 6.2-STABLE also? >> >> There is one issue. ATI IXP600/IXP700 not yet supported with ata(4) >> driver. And you will have only UDMA33 is the best case. But you can >> found a patch in gnats (PR ). >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116125 > > No, the Abit AN-M2(HD) are based on nForce chip-sets (630a with > integrated 7025/7050 graphics), no patch is required for ata(4) > (since the SATA/IDE parts are mostly identical to the nF6150/430, > with the addition of AHCI support, which can be optionally enabled > in the BIOS). When I tried 6.2-STABLE on my AN-M2HD, the nve driver didn't recognize the Ethernet hardware. The nfe driver in 7.0-CURRENT works fine and I'm very happy with this board for desktop use, though I haven't exercised the onboard sound with FreeBSD. I'm using the Nvidia binary-blob graphics driver.
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