Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:47:33 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: fbsdq <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: motherboard fbsd 5.x Message-ID: <20050716134733.GA24438@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050716151701.5ecb6b10.dick@nagual.st> References: <20050716151701.5ecb6b10.dick@nagual.st>
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--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:17:01PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: <snip>=20 > From what I understand there are still some problems with AMD64 > boards. Still, 64bits is the future.. so is it better to wait a while, > _or_ are there *good* supported motherboards for amd64? Avoid boards with NForce chipsets. My MSI NEO FSR mobo with K8T800 chipset (MS-6702) works like a charm. > Maybe it's better to stay with Intel and FreeBSD? I've had no problems with amd64 since 5.3-RELEASE. > And about harddisks: is it true that fbsd support for ATA harddisks is > better / more robust than for SATA drives? Not AFAICT. My aforementioned mobo has a VIA SATA controller: atapci0@pci0:15:0: class=3D0x010400 card=3D0x70201462 chip=3D0x31491106 rev=3D0x80 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'VIA Technologies Inc' device =3D 'VT8237 VT6410 SATA RAID Controller' class =3D mass storage subclass =3D RAID It works fine with my WD harddisk: Master: ad4 <WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0/02.05D02> Serial ATA v1.0 > I need some *concrete* advice. The rest of the hardware will be a > lesser problem. HTH, Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC2Q/1EnfvsMMhpyURAktbAJ9qE4nrLIwnlWu6SvzgkwRtQFrWpQCcCeJK Bn/di1tGkLLlT/TVIgtzUlc= =9OQC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--
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