Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:27:23 +0200 From: "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.de> To: "Jonas Lund" <whizzter@gmail.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA EX15000G Message-ID: <18481.32827.595664.724170@zaphod.home.loc> In-Reply-To: <436c7eda0805190436r713834ecw90a9920741f72720@mail.gmail.com> References: <18481.21748.522109.722808@zaphod.home.loc> <436c7eda0805190436r713834ecw90a9920741f72720@mail.gmail.com>
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Jonas Lund writes: > I have an EN12000eg machine, running 6.2 on it. At the start however i > had some crappy fake-raid card installed. If any disks were attached > to it the boot would just hang. (Don't remember exactly but i think it > died already in the bootloader) No additional card. > I think i have turned off the SW raid built into the board. no memory > as to if that affected the machine however. I'm not aware of any RAID implemented in the motherboard's chipset. > A small note also, check that the bios reports the same amount of > memory that you have installed. If it's halved then there's a bug in > the chipsets that made atleast my board to use half the memory if the > stick had chips with 128MB on it. If you can get a stick with 64MB > chips it'll work. See www.mini-itx.com for a hopefully better > description :) I've installed a 1GB stick. It looks as it is seen correctly (real memory = 958MB, avail memory = 922MB). > I'm quite happy with it now. using gmirror, 2x 3.5" disks and a silent > machine that only uses 49 watts. I was quite happy with an M6000 as well. -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.de
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