Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 21:08:10 +0300 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel SE7520BD2 motherboard Message-ID: <20060502210810.rwy4yfg6s8k80c8k@webmail.raad.tartu.ee>
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Hello! Some friends of mine are looking to buy a new server hardware based on =20 Intel SE7520BD2 motherboard for their FreeBSD server (6.0 or whatever =20 is the latest release in a month or two). The plan is to use two =20 mirrored SCSI disks as main storage and one (S)ATA disk for backups. =20 Two LAN connections are necessary. I've been trying to figure out how well all the integrated features of =20 this motherboard are supported by FreeBSD. So far, these are my findings - SCSI/RAID controller: LSI1030 - explicitly noted in hardware notes, =20 also I'm running one of these with FreeBSD 5.4 right now so this =20 should be OK; - First integrated NIC: Intel 82541PI - explicitly noted in hardware =20 notes, so should be OK; - Second integrated NIC: Marvell Yukon EC88E8050 - nothing about this =20 in hardware notes, but a binary FreeBSD 6 driver can be downloaded =20 from Marvell's website. I have no experience using third-party binary =20 drivers with FreeBSD, so I'm a bit hesitant here. If I get this driver =20 working with FreeBSD 6.0, can I expect it to still work with 6.1, 6.2, =20 etc? Given the usual warnings how kernel and userland must be kept in =20 sync when upgrading, I think this is even more true about kernel and =20 modules. Am I possibly commiting myself to running an outdated 6.x =20 release by using this third-party binary driver? - Intel ICH5R SATA controller. Also not explicitly noted in hardware =20 notes, at least not in 'Disk controllers' section. Couldn't find =20 anything definitive by googling. I'm not interested in possible RAID =20 features, would it work if I just connected a single SATA disk to this =20 controller? Overall, would you recommend this motherboard for running FreeBSD 6? Thanks in advance for any feedback. --=20 Toomas Aas
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