Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:11:35 +0200 From: Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net> To: Ravi Pokala <rp_freebsd@mac.com> Cc: Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a motherboard with lots of SATA ports, supported in 6.2-STABLE Message-ID: <7F96C513-068B-425B-A15A-E8F555788DE4@patpro.net> In-Reply-To: <C2AD4F18.1F5DE%rp_freebsd@mac.com> References: <C2AD4F18.1F5DE%rp_freebsd@mac.com>
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On 1 juil. 07, at 21:31, Ravi Pokala wrote: >>> My main concerns are that the networking is well supported (GigE >>> preferred of >>> course), and that there are lots of supported on-board SATA ports. I >>> currently have four SATA drives, so I'd prefer six or eight ports >>> on the new >>> board for growth. >>> >>> I'd also like decent on-board graphics, on the off chance I want >>> to dual-boot >>> it to play some older games. In FreeBSD, it just needs to be >>> supported enough >>> to give me a VGA console. >>> >> >> You probably won't find 8 SATA ports and onboard video, these two >> just >> don't match. You either take a high-end board with lots of >> features, but >> *never* have onboard video (IGP), of you take a microATX board with >> onboard video which have 2 maybe 4 SATA ports. > > Heh. You're right of course. I wasn't able to find any 8-SATA > boards with > onboard video, but I did find a few 6-SATA boards. just take a look at these: 8 SATA / 8MB SVGA http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7501/X5DPL-TGM.cfm 2+8 SATA / 8MB SVGA http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7520/X6DHT-G.cfm 8 SATA / 8MB SVGA http://supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/nforce/H8DCE-HTe.cfm You'll probably find others at Tyan, may be with better video (more choice, and up to 16MB). regards, patpro
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