From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 12:02:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9E716A4CE; Fri, 13 May 2005 12:02:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rodan.vipstructures.com (godzilla.vipstructures.com [66.195.71.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187F043D2D; Fri, 13 May 2005 12:02:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from etoll@vipstructures.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.vipstructures.com [127.0.0.1]) by rodan.vipstructures.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442B81EE827; Fri, 13 May 2005 08:02:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mothra.vipstructures.com (mothra.vipstructures.com [192.168.1.3]) by rodan.vipstructures.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD191EE81D; Fri, 13 May 2005 08:02:05 -0400 (EDT) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:02:04 -0400 Message-ID: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A944E4D33@VIP10-WIN2K> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: iWill ZMaxDP Thread-Index: AcVXbs2FhMgCU0+sSz2kB3y0i31d3AAQ3GtA From: "Toll, Eric" To: , "Steve Kargl" cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: iWill ZMaxDP X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 12:02:08 -0000 > At Thu, 12 May 2005 20:36:26 -0700, > Steve Kargl wrote: > >=20 > > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:32:14PM -0400, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > > > So, I'm considering doing 2P work on FreeBSD-CURRENT with=20 > the above=20 > > > box. Specs: > > >=20 > > > nVIDIA nForce3 Professional MCP > > >=20 > > > TI IEEE1394 TSB43AB22PDT Host Controller > > >=20 > > > Marvell 88E1111 PHY > > >=20 > > > Native nVIDIA Ethernet MAC > > >=20 > > > I saw some issues in the mailing list in January but I'm=20 > wondering=20 > > > how this box is working lately. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Buyer beware. Read the last 4 months of the mailing list. >=20 > I read over that. Perhaps I should be more specific. This=20 > if for kernel hacking on 2P machine at home. I'd prefer a=20 > small, quiet, 2P machine as I will get murdered if I put a=20 > loud machine in the living room ;-) So, it's not a desktop=20 > machine, and it will be running the bleeding edge. >=20 > Any recommendations given the previous comments? >=20 It sounds like you already bought the box, or already have it. If not, = I just built one out of components and its *very* quiet. (See: My proposed = 3ware system) Cost was about $1800.00 and this included dual Opteron 242's a = 64Bit 3Ware Raid controller, (2) 250Gb SATA RAID Edition drives and a nice = Antec 550Watt EATX case. System is Gigabyte board GA-7A8DW with AMD chipset. = You could make the price even lower if you removed the extra drive, the = expensive RAM and the RAID controller. It runs like a bought one! HTH Eric