Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:41:11 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: "Søren" Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? Message-ID: <512683.5780.qm@web63911.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <474B2FF6.6020209@freebsd.org>
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--- Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org> wrote: > Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 07:26 AM 11/21/2007, Barney Cordoba wrote: > >> I've done a bit of research and it seems that > this > >> chipset has been ignored for years now by the > FreeBSD > >> team. Whats the reasoning for a major chipset > used by > > > > I think you are jumping to conclusions. I have a > HT1000 chipset board > > and have been using it just fine for some time. > > > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-November/079920.html) > > > > > There obviously are some cases were it does not, > so its harder to > > track down than just a case of spending $150. If > you do have such a > > board that does not work, perhaps make the offer > of sending the > > problem board to a developer who is interested in > fixing the issue. > That would be an excelent idea :) > > As usual I'll try to get any ATA/SATA HW that shows > up on my doorstep > working, thats the deal. > I dont have the means nor the motivation to spend my > own hard earned $$ > on all kinds of HW to get someone out there free > support, simple as that.. > > That said, I do have a HT1000 based board around a > supermicro H8SSL that > is used as a busy local fileserver, needless to say > it works flawlessly. > > So, to get this worked on and hopefully fixed, get > me a failing board to > work on here... private mail with address details > etc can be had on > request... > > -Søren > Is your busy file server running 7.0, and is it running in SATA mode? The MBs we've tried are H8SSP-i and an H8SSL-i, both with the same, unsuccessful results: bad file reads, signals when trying to run apps, crash-and-burn on buildworld wthin 5 seconds. Something happened between 6.2 and 7.0, as we were able to run 6.2 on these systems. Barney ____________________________________________________________________________________ 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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