Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine

From: Gavin Atkinson (gavin.atkinson_at_ury.york.ac.uk)
Date: 11/28/05

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    To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:07:23 +0000

    On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:55 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
    > Cian Hughes wrote on Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:55:02PM +0000:
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    > > Hey, I'm in no rush on this one, but I'm planning on building a new
    > > Athlon AMD64 machine, It's primarily as a voip server and file
    > > storage box for home use and will have 8 SATA (possibly SATA-II)
    > > drives attached to a RAID 5 card, probably Highpoint (but i'm open on
    > > this).
    > >
    > > I am wondering, what have people on this list built recently, within
    > > these bounds, I'm looking to choose a motherboard with one or two
    > > 1000Base-T Ethernet ports (to keep PCI's free for other things, ISDN
    > > card, TV Tuner, etc...), if possible what has and hasn't worked, i'm
    > > not too worried about onboard HD controllers, etc.
    >
    > I have a DFI SLI-DRI which is NForce 4 based and I am overall amazed
    > how well it works. In particular the SATA controller (only tested the
    > first 4 ports).

    Out of interest, does FreeBSD correctly notice the hot-inserting of SATA
    drives on this board? I'm fighting with an NForce 4 based system at the
    moment which notices the hot removal but needs a reboot before it
    notices a new drive has been inserted (under FreeBSD, Linux and
    Solaris).

    Gavin
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