From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 1 20:11:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D6716A468 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:11:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patpro@patpro.net) Received: from smtp7-g19.free.fr (smtp7-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CEC13C43E for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:11:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patpro@patpro.net) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (eyr76-1-82-236-60-68.fbx.proxad.net [82.236.60.68]) by smtp7-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55CC18290; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:11:36 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7F96C513-068B-425B-A15A-E8F555788DE4@patpro.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Patrick Proniewski Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:11:35 +0200 To: Ravi Pokala X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: Fluffles , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a motherboard with lots of SATA ports, supported in 6.2-STABLE 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: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:11:37 -0000 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