Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:20:40 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is this hardware supported? Message-ID: <480E2C78.9050407@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <20080419220653.GA53245@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <480938EC.2000103@supsi.ch> <20080419090036.GA6302@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <480A21B4.3010702@supsi.ch> <20080419220653.GA53245@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland, Thank you for your support. I'll post here the result of installing FreeBSD on that HW. Best regards. Robi. Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Ok. So what about this? >> http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307 >> >> Has anybody been using it? >> With what success? >> Can anybody use the embedded RAID controller to make a HW RAID 1 >> with two SATA disks? > > According to ata(4), the ICH8 chipset is supported. According to > ataraid(4) the jmicron is supported. > > But if it doesn't work, you can always use gmirror(8). > >> Is the NIC supported and working well? > > Hard to say. The spec page you provided doesn't list the type of Realtek > chip used. Again, if it doesn't work get a cheap Realtek 8139 card. > >> Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported >> HW list, so that's why I ask the list. > > It is better to check the manual pages of drivers. > >> But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3 >> can run on this HW > > I recently booted FreeBSD on a system with a intel motherboard with a > ICH9 chipset. Everything seemed to work OK. > > Roland
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