From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 12:51:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCDEC37B401 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 12:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pit.databus.com (p70-227.acedsl.com [66.114.70.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B9343F75 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 12:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: from pit.databus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pit.databus.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4VJpq9r043678 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 15:51:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: (from barney@localhost) by pit.databus.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4VJpqJS043677 for hardware@freebsd.org; Sat, 31 May 2003 15:51:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:51:52 -0400 From: Barney Wolff To: hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030531195152.GA43588@pit.databus.com> References: <20030530151148.GA57241@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030530151148.GA57241@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.33 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: AMD motherboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 19:51:54 -0000 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:11:48AM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I am getting ready to upgrade a system with a new motherboard. It will > be a board for an AMD-XP processor. It seems all of the boards I have > looked at have a lot of integrated stuff I do not want but I have a few > questions about FreeBSD support. > > [1] Do any of the onboard audio systems work with FreeBSD? > > [2] Do any of the onboard RAID controllers (Promise) work with FreeBSD? > Are they worthwhile? My Asus A7V333-raid gives me >85 MB/sec on raid0 with pair of 80GB 133 MHz drives, and on-board audio works fine. Note that the A7V333X is different and I have no info on fbsd on it. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.