Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:23:02 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? Message-ID: <339722.72087.qm@web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200711210838.18781.fjwcash@gmail.com>
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--- Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote: > On November 21, 2007 04:26 am Barney Cordoba wrote: > > It would be a major > > black eye to the project to say "FreeBSD 7 is > > released, but BTW, if you have a supermicro or > tyan > > opteron system it won't work at all". > > The HT1000 is only 1 of the Opteron chipsets > available from Tyan, and it's > only available on their 1 socket boards (the > Tomcats). The dual- and > quad- socket boards either use AMD or AMD+nVidia > chipsets (Socket > 939/940), or nVidia chipsets (Socket AM2). Out of > their entire lineup, > the HT1000 makes up maybe 10% of the chipsets used > by Tyan. > > I'd hardly call that a "black eye". And it's only > the onboard SATA > controller that has issues. Pop in a proper RAID > controller, and it's no > longer an issue. > There are a lot more single socket systems in the field, so maybe its 10 % of their product line, but a lot more than that in number of products sold. Supermicro is a more important brand. They supply to many large OEMs, including DELL. Dell's opteron servers use the HT1000 chipset. So chomp on them apples. Maybe 2 black eyes. Barney > > Someone was complaining 2 years ago that they > didn't > > have hardware to do the work. Is the FreeBSD > project > > really so poorly funded that they can't get their > > hands on a $150 motherboard for 2 years? > > Ever considered sending one in? :) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
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