From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 1 2:36:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cage.tse-online.de (cage.tse-online.de [194.97.69.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D67A37B417 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:36:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7673 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Mar 2002 10:36:17 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:36:17 +0100 From: Andreas Braukmann To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware compatability with Flex ATX systems Message-ID: <20020301103617.GG99188@cage.tse-online.de> References: <200203010550.g215owB06161@bmah.dyndns.org> <200203010621.WAA52249@tantivy.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203010621.WAA52249@tantivy.stanford.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: TSE GmbH - Neue Medien Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:21:24PM -0800, Bob Vaughan wrote: > > They happen to carry the Shuttle SV24 and the > > FICA Sabre 1815; these are both Flex ATX motherboards in physically > > small cases. I was thinking that either of them might make a nice, > > inexpensive workstation (add processor, memory, and disk). > > > > http://www.shuttleonline.com/sv24.htm > > http://www.fica.com/products/systems/Databook/Sabre1815/Sabre1815.stm > > > > I was wondering if anyone's had any experience (good or bad) with > > running FreeBSD on either of these systems? FreeBSD runs just fine on the sv24. Recently Shuttle introduced a successor (sv25), that is capable of running the tualatins, too. > I also saw the SV24 after I bought the FICA, and was considering it as > another small box, until I took a closer look, and saw a RealTek 8139 > as the ethernet chipset. (read the comments in /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c) That's the least wanted feature; yes. > The other thing I noticed about the SV24 was that it would be a real pain to > add any expansion cards to the box, such as a real display controller, or > additional ethernet, or a video capture card, all of which I have (or will > soon have) in the FICA box. How many PCI-slots does the FICO box have? > The chassis has a cutout for a card, but there > appears to be no place in the box to put it. The SV24/25 has one additional PCI-Slot. I popped in a DLINK 570-TX (Quad Port LAN) quiet easily. It runs as my internet-gateway system without a hassle during the last few months. BTW, it's a nice idea to cut the voltage for the fans from 12 to 7V. -Andreas -- : Anti-Spam Petition: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ : : PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key : : Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message