From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 01:15:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 80B7A16A41C for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:15:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC6443D45 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:15:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1DtxkN-0002Qc-6M; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:15:11 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20050716151701.5ecb6b10.dick@nagual.st> References: <20050716151701.5ecb6b10.dick@nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:15:10 -0600 To: dick hoogendijk X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: fbsdq Subject: Re: motherboard fbsd 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:15:12 -0000 On Jul 16, 2005, at 7:17 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > I read the pages about supported hardware. It dazzles me. > > I want to buy a new motherboard. I will run FreeBSD-5.4 (and later > on v6.x) on it. No fancy stuff like raid. Just plenty of memory and > good performance and fbsd support tothe fullest(!). > > >> 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? >> > > Maybe it's better to stay with Intel and FreeBSD? My dual opteron Tyan S2882 board is rock solid. I am running the i386 version of FreeBSD since when I started working with it I needed some java stuff which at the time was not working on the AMD64 version. It has been running since April of 04 and in production since Feb of this year. I use it with SCSI RAID controller so I cannot speak of the ATA/SATA support. Chad > > And about harddisks: is it true that fbsd support for ATA harddisks > is better / more robust than for SATA drives? > > I need some *concrete* advice. The rest of the hardware will be a > lesser problem. > > -- > dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE > ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 > + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net