From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 18:49:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBA116A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:49:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E6E43D1F for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:49:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBSInQcH070282; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBSInQJ6070281; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:49:26 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Brian Myers Message-ID: <20041228184926.GA69940@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <5B1511FA-5540-11D9-AF1F-000A95B96642@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5B1511FA-5540-11D9-AF1F-000A95B96642@charter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New board for a newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:49:30 -0000 On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:11:27PM -0800, Brian Myers wrote: > 2) I've seen much conversation on which boards, memory, and SATA > controllers were supported by FreeBSD. So much so that I have no idea > what the current state of things is. So, if you were building a new > dual Opteron from scratch, what would you get? For cost reasons, I'm > going with 1.8 ghz processors and probably only 2GB of ram. I'll have > two RAID 1 SATA hard drives, but should I use an onboard controller, or > purchase a separate controller? Note that I may at some point upgrade > to 4 RAID 0+1 disks. What about video cards? I don't need much so, are > the onboard ones useable or not? Also, I, of course, would like the > onboard LAN controller to be supported. You really don't mention the use of the machine -- server or workstation (or mix)? Do you need an AGP slot for high-end graphics, or is low-end on-board VGA just fine? How many 64-bit PCI-X slots do you need? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)