From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 06:55:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F0516A41F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 06:55:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (sigma.octantis.com.au [207.44.188.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9534A43D48 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 06:55:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 10016 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2005 16:55:18 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Aug 2005 16:55:18 +1000 Message-ID: <42EF18BE.2030804@meijome.net> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:54:54 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Opteron + Tyan B2891 board X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 06:55:20 -0000 Hi list, Does anyone have any (good/bad) experience with the Tyan B2891 board http://www.tyan.com/products/html/gt24b2891_spec.html In particular, the SATA-II controller - not too worried about the RAID functionality as it isn't that good (will probably go GEOM way) I plan to have 2 x Opteron CPUs, Freebsd-amd64 5.4, 4 x WDC SATA-II 250GB drives, 4 GB RAM. thanks for any comments / advice. Beto