From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 2 18:08:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 1637216A6D3 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:08:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from kuller.raad.tartu.ee (kuller.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DC643D69 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:08:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kuller.raad.tartu.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14966BB07 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 21:08:18 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kuller.raad.tartu.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kuller.raad.tartu.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78535-07 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 21:08:11 +0300 (EEST) Received: by kuller.raad.tartu.ee (Postfix, from userid 80) id F1619BAF0; Tue, 2 May 2006 21:08:10 +0300 (EEST) Received: from 84-50-78-102-dsl.trt.estpak.ee (84-50-78-102-dsl.trt.estpak.ee [84.50.78.102]) by webmail.raad.tartu.ee (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Tue, 02 May 2006 21:08:10 +0300 Message-ID: <20060502210810.rwy4yfg6s8k80c8k@webmail.raad.tartu.ee> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 21:08:10 +0300 From: Toomas Aas To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1-cvs) X-Originating-IP: 84.50.78.102 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at post.raad.tartu.ee Cc: Subject: Intel SE7520BD2 motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 18:08:42 -0000 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