Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:45:40 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is this hardware supported? Message-ID: <480A21B4.3010702@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <20080419090036.GA6302@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <480938EC.2000103@supsi.ch> <20080419090036.GA6302@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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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? Is the NIC supported and working well? Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported HW list, so that's why I ask the list. But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3 can run on this HW It's a Asus P5B, with intel P965 / ICH8 chipset With that MB I would like to build a small FreeBSD 6.3 home server with: - 1 cpu Intel CORE2DUO E4600 - 2 GB DDR2-RAM Patriot DDR2 2GB Kit, PC6400 - 2 sata drives (HW RAID 1) Any comment/hint welcome. Thank you. Best regards. -- Robi Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 02:12:28AM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I would like to buy the following motherboard but >> I couldn't find its chipsets in the 6.3 supported HW list: >> >> So, I thought to ask the list for comments. >> >> http://www.gigabyte.de/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2613&ProductName=GA-73PVM-S2H >> >> It's a GigaByte GA-73PVM-S2H >> >> What I'm worring about is expecially the sata disk controller: >> GeForce 7100/nForce 630i chipset >> >> and the network interface: >> RTL 8211B chip > > I would avoid Nvidia chipsets. For Athlon processors, I've had the best > results with motherboards with a AMD or VIA chipset. For Intel processors, > VIA or intel chipsets are fine. > > Roland
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