From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 15:07:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5B616A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (mail-gw1.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E28043D75 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jASF7P5N005371; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:25 GMT Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jASF7PJm042388; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:25 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jASF7OkN042387; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:24 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Martin Cracauer In-Reply-To: <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org> References: <61FBEC57-424E-450F-A775-10E1F5E8DF92@cian.ws> <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:23 +0000 Message-Id: <1133190443.41553.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:37 -0000 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: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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