From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 23:54:00 2005 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 E4A0416A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:54:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EC143D53 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:54:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1FNrxhY097552; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:54:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1FNrwPn097551; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:53:58 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jan Mikkelsen Message-ID: <20050215235358.GC96584@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <4212868E.8080005@transactionware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4212868E.8080005@transactionware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Mark Magiera cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia chipsets (was Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or"Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:54:01 -0000 On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:32:30AM +1100, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: > sheet the chipset is an "NVIDIA nForce Professional with AMD-8131 > HyperTransport PCI-X tunnel". > > The xw9300 looked interesting to me, but I guess the chipset is going to > be a problem for using FreeBSD on those boxes. Is HP a possible source > of information on the chipset? Very unlikely. > (Incidentally, does anyone know anything about the HP DL385, or the HP > Opteron blades, the BL25p and BL35p?) The *5 machines are opteron versions of the Xeon offerings. See the *0 Xeon offerings to get a feel for the specs of the box. I *believe* the DL385 uses the DL380 chassis. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)