Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:55:44 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: James Seward <james@jamesoff.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard Recommendation Message-ID: <20050621135544.GC587@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20050621131824.GF47533@yomi.jamesoff.net> References: <20050621131824.GF47533@yomi.jamesoff.net>
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--aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:18:24PM +0100, James Seward wrote: > It's upgrade time, and a friend is donating me an Athlon64; all I need > to do is choose a motherboard to put it on (and carry the rest of my > existing hardware over). >=20 > My only requirement is that SATA works. My current setup (with an > SI3112) encounters DMA timeouts regularly on the SATA disks leading to > slowdowns, instability, and (in one case) a trashed partition. I don't > care about RAID, I'm not going to be using GEOM or anything like that, I > just want to plug my disks (Maxtor DiamondMax9s) into it and have it > work. >=20 > Can anyone recommend, preferably backed up by personal experience, a > motherboard or chipset which reliably works with FreeBSD and SATA? :) > Maybe http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html will help you. Marc --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCuBxfzQ9RwE+OdOgRAjb6AJ47HSBfn9PCWf+lgov06AY8sm+qQQCgt1dX vGkm1QQHbbxARvJj5N71Srk= =zAp9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx--
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