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Subject: Re: mb recommendation
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David Reid wrote:
> At present I have an ABIT AN-8 Ultra MB which features the nVidia nForce
> 4 chipset. Given nVidia's attitude to releasing information and the
> resultant lack of information/drivers on FreeBSD I've finally decided to
> change it. Requirements are SATA (ideally with raid) and PCI-e. ATX
> form. Anyone got any recommendations?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> david

Following URL http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html 
can provide some info on motherboards for amd64 platform.

I'm using Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI. Onboard NForce4 SATA controller is working 
without issues, though RAID functionality is not tested.

Yuri