From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 18:23:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B8A16A417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CADB13C45D for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 72521 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Nov 2007 18:23:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=1WcuCN8LJHpm+5HrG3coUfbd+s3XH7gzwis+y1qf4yQVYS49+71P8I4Z26Jpy7mnlVTYEB00fWI2P1G6YxFYd6/HpT4TXbIIbnHbI32PN0u2JGvBJgxIP9SJ5ncqZPMCYnr3yFGuv/j72+HPpu9EHZLvOdE6FfNPx1ADInNVzHM=; X-YMail-OSG: rgVKMXAVM1k4A0vstkbabwcH08K4yd82OIhj9hPFdnrk3pAO7FtCI6W8U3qHubORjLqdEELOR0RF0IU6VA6Bt5ZxVSxrV2qcDzrE Received: from [98.203.28.38] by web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:23:02 PST Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:23:02 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba To: Freddie Cash , freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200711210838.18781.fjwcash@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <339722.72087.qm@web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:23:03 -0000 --- Freddie Cash 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