From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 22:01:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 74B4C16A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:01:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0011E43D55 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:01:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] (helo=localhost.englishbreakfastnetwork.org) by pandora.cs.kun.nl (8.12.10/5.2) with ESMTP id j5DM1II4006400 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:01:18 +0200 (MEST) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:01:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.50 References: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A9456EA37@VIP10-WIN2K> In-Reply-To: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A9456EA37@VIP10-WIN2K> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506140001.18107.groot@kde.org> X-Spam-Score: -1.399 () BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 131.174.33.4 Subject: Re: What kind of MotherBoard is better for FreeBsd and linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:01:21 -0000 On Monday 13 June 2005 15:27, you wrote: > > People should report what they know to work. We should > > probably get rid of the "functional" and "fully > > functional"... OR define what "fully functional" > > means. This was the important bit of my message: if "fully functional" means "the bits I care about worked" then there's just not much point in putting it up there. > The reason SATA was untested was that I found there were > issues getting RAID to raid to work on the Sil chips, just > from reading this list. Oh, so did I. This was one of the few times I've received a new box and thought "oh, crap", since I knew it just wasn't going to work, not for the purposes I have for it. Well, modulo the amount of effort I wanted to put into it. (Gosh, but Scott has an nForce4 board working "just fine", so maybe 6-CURRENT _is_ the way to go.) -- These are your friends - Adem GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot