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Date:      Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:23 +0000
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine
Message-ID:  <1133190443.41553.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org>
References:  <61FBEC57-424E-450F-A775-10E1F5E8DF92@cian.ws> <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org>

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On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:55 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> Cian Hughes wrote on Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:55:02PM +0000: 
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> > Hey, I'm in no rush on this one, but I'm planning on building a new  
> > Athlon AMD64 machine, It's primarily as a voip server and file  
> > storage box for home use and will have 8 SATA (possibly SATA-II)  
> > drives attached to a RAID 5 card, probably Highpoint (but i'm open on  
> > this).
> > 
> > I am wondering, what have people on this list built recently, within  
> > these bounds, I'm looking to choose a motherboard with one or two  
> > 1000Base-T Ethernet ports (to keep PCI's free for other things, ISDN  
> > card, TV Tuner, etc...), if possible what has and hasn't worked, i'm  
> > not too worried about onboard HD controllers, etc.
> 
> I have a DFI SLI-DRI which is NForce 4 based and I am overall amazed
> how well it works.  In particular the SATA controller (only tested the
> first 4 ports).

Out of interest, does FreeBSD correctly notice the hot-inserting of SATA
drives on this board?  I'm fighting with an NForce 4 based system at the
moment which notices the hot removal but needs a reboot before it
notices a new drive has been inserted (under FreeBSD, Linux and
Solaris).

Gavin



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