From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 20 16:19:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF03016A492 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BEB43D67 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:19:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9A45E06; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:19:46 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4pHnXhlp16Xf; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:19:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-161-95-165.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.95.165]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9FC5D32; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:19:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4561D59C.4060005@mac.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:19:40 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ramesh Subrahmaniam References: <20061119173324.53829.qmail@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061119173324.53829.qmail@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:19:49 -0000 Ramesh Subrahmaniam wrote: > Where should I be asking questions regarding install ? This list is a good place. > If this is the correct forum I have a Sis648-FX motherboard. > I have two hard drives; one Hitachi and one Western Digital. I also have a BTC DVD-ROM. > > In addtition to this I have two Sil 3112 SATA Controllers on which I have four disks. > Overall I have 6 disks. I would like to run Free BSD on it make it a NAS box. The Silicon Image 3112 chipset is broken, and while some workarounds in software are available, performance and reliability of the SilI 3112 suffer. I'd return the MB and get another one with a known-working SATA controller. -- -Chuck