From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 3: 2:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A5937B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:02:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9637B43F75 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:02:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (orb_rules@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1DB2uVw097104; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:02:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1DB2uFI097103; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:02:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:02:56 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Pete Gontier Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iDOT iBox Slim PC Message-ID: <20030213110256.GG96082@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VrqPEDrXMn8OVzN4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --VrqPEDrXMn8OVzN4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:55:12AM -0800, Pete Gontier wrote: > I found a page for the chip set for this machine: >=20 > http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_mini_itx_spec.jsp?motherboardId= =3D21 >=20 > My reading of: >=20 > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-i386.html >=20 > ...does not indicate goodness. >=20 > The OpenBSD story is slightly better; it claims to support ATA. >=20 > It seems not entirely unreasonable to assume that many functions of the c= hip > set are clones, more or less, of popular chips, but without getting my ha= nds > on the machine so I can boot from CD and run dmesg, I'm wary. And in any > case a clone still must demonstrate its quality. >=20 > Maybe it's time to break down and check into Linux. I really don't know much about the different EPIA models, but check this page: http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/ And any related threads on -hackers (in the archives). Matthew Dillon was busy with a motherboard from the same line at least. HTH, --Stijn --=20 "...I like logs. They give me a warm fuzzy feeling. I've been known to keep logs for 30 months at a time (generally when I thought I was rotating them daily, but was actually rotating them once a month)." -- Michael Lucas, in Big Scary Daemons article 'Controlling Bandwidth' --VrqPEDrXMn8OVzN4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+S3tgY3r/tLQmfWcRAuljAJ4ttMX3lJInLLoM/yo5oy3hkM0ghQCfRq9q P30W2DdbxdQm6wlQ7B8Xprw= =89Op -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VrqPEDrXMn8OVzN4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message