From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 15 9:36:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA24C37B418 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:36:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAFHckY01018; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:38:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200111151738.fAFHckY01018@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: andre@netvision.com.br Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel motherboard. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Nov 2001 00:28:12 GMT." <20011115141513.8AA381770@mail2.netvision.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:38:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is there someone running FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board STL2 motherboard > with an Intel Server RAID Controller U3-1 (SRCU31). If not, on some other BSD > maybe. > A customer has bought one of those and I'm gonna install it tomorrow, but > I've seen on the internet that FreeBSD does not support it. The SRC-U* family isn't supported (and in fact, you won't even be able to boot FreeBSD with it installed). Intel bought ICP Vortex, who are redoing the firmware and drivers for these controllers. I haven't heard anything to suggest that the new firmware is shipping yet; if it is, it's worth trying, but otherwise "just forget it". -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message