From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 02:42:26 2004 Return-Path: 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 5183716A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 02:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (node-c-0ab6.a2000.nl [62.194.10.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77DEA43D1D for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 02:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [172.16.1.4]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CEC38275; Tue, 25 May 2004 11:43:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40B314EA.5040802@wcborstel.nl> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:42:02 +0200 From: Jorn Argelo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christer.Solskogen@telenor.com References: <544F1B1474E4004A8F08A85FC18783C201A03D31@TNS-FBU-2E-004.corp.telenor.no> In-Reply-To: <544F1B1474E4004A8F08A85FC18783C201A03D31@TNS-FBU-2E-004.corp.telenor.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 (Intern) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:42:26 -0000 Christer.Solskogen@telenor.com wrote: >I`m very close to byu a AMD64 system, but I`m not quite sure how it will work on FreeBSD. >Is there something I should be aware about? Some mainboards maybe? >And how about S-ATA on these boards? > >(I will probably run 5-CURRENT) > >-- >Med vennlig hilsen >Christer Solskogen >Telenor Forhandlerservice > >Tlf 55 55 17 70 - Fax 815 44 155 >tts.fs-best@telenor.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >. > > > The 64-bit support on FreeBSD is very good, as long as you download the AMD64 ISOs and not the i386 ISOs. As for S-ATA, the support isn't really optimal as far as I know, especially when you're going to use an S-ATA RAID controller. I've tried the 64-bit FreeBSD version on my AMD64 3000+, and it worked just fine. But I switched back to Bill's software since I wanted to make it a gaming machine, and not a real workstation. Cheers, Jorn