From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 13:27:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79D61065679 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 13:27:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walter.pelissero@iesy.net) Received: from mail01.ish.de (wsmip252.ish.de [80.69.98.252]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 317EE8FC17 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 13:27:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walter.pelissero@iesy.net) Received: from [81.210.239.8] (account walter.pelissero@iesy.net HELO zaphod.home.loc) by mail-fe-01.mail01.ish.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTPSA id 195907235; Mon, 19 May 2008 15:27:42 +0200 Received: from zaphod.home.loc (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zaphod.home.loc (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m4JDRNGd018894; Mon, 19 May 2008 15:27:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp@zaphod.home.loc) Received: (from wcp@localhost) by zaphod.home.loc (8.14.2/8.13.3/Submit) id m4JDRNiU018891; Mon, 19 May 2008 15:27:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp) From: "Walter C. Pelissero" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18481.32827.595664.724170@zaphod.home.loc> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:27:23 +0200 To: "Jonas Lund" In-Reply-To: <436c7eda0805190436r713834ecw90a9920741f72720@mail.gmail.com> References: <18481.21748.522109.722808@zaphod.home.loc> <436c7eda0805190436r713834ecw90a9920741f72720@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 23.0.60.4 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.0) X-Attribution: WP X-For-Spammers: blacklistme@pelissero.de X-MArch-Archive-ID: 59010 X-MArch-Processing-Time: 0.41s Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA EX15000G X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: walter@pelissero.de List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:27:46 -0000 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