From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 11:45:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9330E16A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:45:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk (asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9DD43D70 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:45:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [62.31.10.79] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FGE9V-0005RM-D7; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:45:25 +0000 Message-ID: <440C20D4.6090400@dial.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:45:24 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060305 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John References: <20060304145634.GA74733@reiteration.net> In-Reply-To: <20060304145634.GA74733@reiteration.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: socket 939 boards with SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:45:28 -0000 John wrote: >Hello list > >Can anyone recommend a socket 939 board for use with FreeBSD 6? Does >SATA work? > > Asus A8V Deluxe works. I won't go so far as to recommend it - it works just fine and I am happy with it - but it's now 9 months since I bought it and I haven't kept up with any developments in the field. The board is not SLI, for example (no clue if that's supported yet) and has no PCI-E PCI-X PCI-Express or other mind-bending variations none of which I can ever get my head around. It has two SATA RAID chipsets which I do not (yet) use in RAID mode. (SATA disks work just fine as long as you controller is supported - check the hardware compatibility pages on the website and use google). Everything else that I would hope to work on the board (ethernet, sound, serial port) works just fine for me. There are some issues with the ACPI but it does the basic thing of powering the machine off which is all I really care about. This is running 5.4 but I wouldn't expect 6 to break anything fundamental -- there were issues with RAID0 on the VIA controller in 6.0. No idea if they are fixed or not and there was an unofficial patch floating around, if you cared. --Alex