Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:34:15 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? Message-ID: <879807.25183.qm@web63907.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200711211416.lALEGv6O040459@lava.sentex.ca>
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--- Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> 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. > > ---Mike Hello Mike, It "works" in 6.x, albeit not in SATA mode, which kind of detracts from using a really, really fast SATA chipset. FreeBSD 7 doesn't work at all on the chipset in any mode that can be set in the bios. You just get signal 11s all over the place, bad file reads, etc. 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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