From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 13:52:38 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 C9B2A16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 13:52:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from godzilla.vipstructures.com (godzilla.vipstructures.com [66.195.71.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3C543D97 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 13:52:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from etoll@vipstructures.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.vipstructures.com [127.0.0.1]) by godzilla.vipstructures.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917C42841D for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 09:52:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from godzilla.vipstructures.com ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 33806-10 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 09:52:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mothra.vipstructures.com (mothra.vipstructures.com [192.168.1.3]) by godzilla.vipstructures.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E1E2841C for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 09:52:33 -0400 (EDT) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:52:33 -0400 Message-ID: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A9456E8CF@VIP10-WIN2K> From: "Toll, Eric" To: X-Antivirus: checked by Norton Anti Virus X-MTA-Mailer: Postfix 2 by Wietse Venema - http://www.postfix.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on godzilla.vipstructures.com Subject: Hello 64 World - My proposed 3Ware system 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: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:52:38 -0000 I am going to build a new server! (I'm excited) below is my shopping = list, this all started with a desire to have a Raid FreeBSD system. RAID led me to = 3Ware, current offerings from 3Ware were of *only* the 64 Bit PCI flavor, my = current MB didn't have it [Cheep SIS with (1) Athlon XP2400+ with WD PATA IDE 40GB] = So I looked for mainboards that had a 66Mhz 64bit PCI slot, from 3Ware's = hardware compatibility list. Found a good one I hope with the Gigabyte board. So = now I'm thinking instead of FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4 to go with the FreeBSD-AMD64 = version. Comments welcome, anyone see any issues? Anyone else have a Gigabyte board with (GA-7A8DW AMD 8111/8131)=20 Chipset running AMD-64? Also my video card will be a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 4x AGP, I like to run X = so I can see high res real time logs... =20 8006-2LP KIT ESCALADE 8006-2LP 1 141.47 = 141.47 WD2500SD WD CAVIAR 250GB RAID ED.SATA-3 2 149.98 = 299.96 GA-7A8DW SERVER BOARDAMD 81118131+81 1 340.86 = 340.86 TITAN 550 ANTEC TITAN SERIES 550 CASE 1 209.87 = 209.87 OSA242AUBOX OPTERON DP SERVER 242 PIB-R 2 217.77 = 435.54 KRX3200AK2/1G 1GB KIT(2X512)DDR400 REG HY 1 415.80 = 415.80 Not bad for around $2,000.00 USD Eh? Regards, Eric