From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 13 12:40:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 EF17916A41A for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:40:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3E543D45 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:40:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:40:27 -0400 id 00056410.448EB23B.00001A0D Received: from Internal Mail-Server by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 13 Jun 2006 08:33:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:40:26 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "DSA - JCR" Message-Id: <20060613084026.d19ff08d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4667.217.114.136.133.1150198740.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> References: <4667.217.114.136.133.1150198740.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EM64T chipset and FreeBSD instalation 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, 13 Jun 2006 12:40:29 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:39:00 -0000 (GMT) "DSA - JCR" wrote: > I am going to install several NFS server in FreebSD for several customers > and the computer has the following characteristics: >=20 > - MSI 945PNeo Platinum Main Board, chipset 915P, ICH7R, VIA=AE 6410, 82573 > PCI-E Gb LAN, PCI Express 16x VGA, VIA=AE 6307 (IEEE1394) > - Intel EM64T P4 CPU 3,2Ghz, 800Mhz FSB, 2Mb L2 > - SDRAM 1Gb DDR2 > - HD IDE 80 GB Seagate > - 2x HD SATA 200Gb Seagate in RAID 1 controlled by the chipset of the > mainboard. >=20 > I want to install in this system a NFS, Samba, and TCP, in order to make > possible to use the data on the RAID 1 like a file repository for the > customer ms windows network, and also get some data files from there homes > with FTP (I will install pfsense in another small pc). >=20 > I think that I must install the "amd64" flavour of FreeBSD, because it is > recommended for the EM64T Intel chip. But I don't know if this flacour is > well tested and if instead of it, i must install the "i386" flavour of > FreeBSD. Both i386 and amd64 are tier 1, meaning they are fully supported. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.= html P4 should be able to run in either i386 mode or amd64 mode -- so it's your choice. > I have seen also that "amd64" seems doesn't have all the devices drivers > that "i386" have, so I don't know what to do really. If the amd64 port doesn't support hardware that you require, then you'll need to use the i386 port. > Also I observ that when I run the install CD 1, it recognize the following > disks: >=20 > - ad0 =3D> the main HD (IDE) > - ad12 =3D> one of the SATA HD > - ad8 =3D> the other SATA HD > - ar8 =3D> ???? >=20 > what is this ? I think is the RAID controller because is of logic, but, > must I create filesystems on the ad12, ad8? or only on ar8? or on all?. I don't know the answer to this. --=20 Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.