From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 16:44:48 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 B66B016A41F; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE21F43D4C; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:46 +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-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jASGiO6B000486; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:24 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 jASGiOee042752; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:24 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 jASGiNKS042751; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:23 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: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt In-Reply-To: <438B1F90.3090708@FreeBSD.org> References: <61FBEC57-424E-450F-A775-10E1F5E8DF92@cian.ws> <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org> <1133190443.41553.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <438B1F90.3090708@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:23 +0000 Message-Id: <1133196263.41553.54.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: Martin Cracauer , 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 16:44:48 -0000 On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 16:17 +0100, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: > Gavin Atkinson wrote: >=20 > >On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:55 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > =20 > > > >>Cian Hughes wrote on Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:55:02PM +0000:=20 > >> =20 > >> > >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>>Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>>Hey, I'm in no rush on this one, but I'm planning on building a new =20 > >>>Athlon AMD64 machine, It's primarily as a voip server and file =20 > >>>storage box for home use and will have 8 SATA (possibly SATA-II) =20 > >>>drives attached to a RAID 5 card, probably Highpoint (but i'm open on = =20 > >>>this). > >>> > >>>I am wondering, what have people on this list built recently, within =20 > >>>these bounds, I'm looking to choose a motherboard with one or two =20 > >>>1000Base-T Ethernet ports (to keep PCI's free for other things, ISDN =20 > >>>card, TV Tuner, etc...), if possible what has and hasn't worked, i'm =20 > >>>not too worried about onboard HD controllers, etc. > >>> =20 > >>> > >>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). > >> =20 > >> > > > >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). > > =20 > > > That used to work on my MSI nf4 board on 6.0 forward. Hmm, well that's promising. This is with: atapci1@pci0:7:0: class=3D0x010485 card=3D0x5348108e chip=3D0x005410d= e rev=3D0xf3 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'NVIDIA Corporation' device =3D 'nForce4 Serial ATA Controller' class =3D mass storage subclass =3D RAID I don't know if it makes any difference, but the board has on-board NVIDIA RAID, which I'm considerably less than impressed with. I'll build one of them without the on-board RAID support and see if hot-insert works. I don't have the logs (long story, but basically the RAID bios hosed my data) but I think it failed to notice the inserted disk, and was timing out while trying to select the channel when forced with an atacontrol reinit. Gavin