motherboard fbsd 5.x

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

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.
>
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