From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 20:21:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 F414416A425 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:21:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D92043D45 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:21:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1F6Crj-0000jJ-U0 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:21:40 +0000 Received: from esperance.zetnet.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with SMTP id k16KLdVJ003983 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:21:39 GMT Received: (qmail 19051 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Feb 2006 20:21:34 -0000 From: "Frank Shute" Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:21:34 +0000 To: lars Message-ID: <20060206202134.GA19004@melon.veggie.com> References: <20060203181157.50690.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> <20060206112043.GA26345@storage.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060206112043.GA26345@storage.mine.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p1 i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' Cc: Peter , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations for 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:21:42 -0000 On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:20:43PM +0100, lars wrote: > > Peter wrote: > > It's time to set up another box to act as file server and I'm at the > > crucial motherboard-choice stage. I'm looking for recommendations for an > > i386 single-cpu mid-price board that work well with FreeBSD 6.0-stable. I > > don't see the point in buying an Intel cpu but if you do then please make > > your point. Thanks a lot. > > > > -- > > Peter > ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe > http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODk5 > > Why? Because it works with FreeBSD, it's cool [C/F], it's fast > and it has all the necessary connectors. > > I use it as a desktop. I built a workstation using an Asus A8N-E and it works fine. It looks like mine is a previous iteration of the same board. The onboard NIC didn't work though, so I stumped up for a new card: 3C905 Running 6.0-RELEASE fine. It's got plenty of room for hard drives (4 SATA and 2 legacy on mine) should you choose to use RAID. It takes a goodly variety of AMD CPUs. (Socket 939) BTW, I used an Antec Sonata case which is probably also a good buy. Quiet with rubber mounted drive bays and little fighting required to fix things in the case. -- Frank echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<---