On 14/03/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter > >Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:58 PM > >To: freebsd-questions > >Subject: Disappointed with version 6.0 > > > > > >I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time > >and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard is > >the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible at > >the FreeBSD/amd64 Project: > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html > > > > Peter, > > That's really a poor choice as a server board. That is basically > a low-end desktop board. VIA isn't known for making top of the > line chipsets. > > I don't know if you have a particular favorite of ASUS, but if your > selecting a motherboard to build a server around from ASUS's product > line you have to dig a bit. ASUS has some server motherboards but > they bury them in their product linueup. Some of the keys to look for > are the existence of RAID on the motherboard, or the name "Premium" > and stay away from any board marketed "for gamers" as a lot of ASUS > boards are. > > For example, a typical ASUS motherboard positioned for the server > market is the P5WD2-E Premium > > >I wonder if going back to 5.4 might help? > > > >Onto the problems... > > > >1. I have 4 IDE drives: > > > >primary controller: Maxtor 40 GB hd (master) and LG cdrom (slave) > >secondary controller: Seagate Barracuda 200 GB hd (master) and Seagate > >Barracuda 300 GB (slave) > > > >Problem: The 300 GB drive is unusable. > > > >I set it up ok with sysinstall during the installation but the system > >will not boot properly if it has an entry in /etc/fstab. I get many > >errors like: > > > >"ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63" > > > > What happens if you set the 300GB as the master on that controller > and do not plug in the 200GB unit? > > >I also get input/output error if I try to examine its label with > >disklabel. > > > >dmesg output is at the end of this post when I booted without fstab > >line. > > > >The strange thing is that the two drives on the secondary controller > >are so similar. Same manufacturer, same product line, the speeds are > >the same. Everything is the same except the size. I ran dos-level > >diagnostics on it and no problems were found. > > > >2. I can't use my USB ports! > > > > What in God's name is a USB peripheral doing on a server? > > I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is why you pay people > to build clones for you. The motherboard manufacturers these days are > coming out with a huge variety of products, and you have to do a lot of > digging through their stuff to find the gems among the junk. > > The professional white box builders out there deal with problems like > yours by returning the motherboard to their distributors and getting > a different model, and testing that. Sometimes they will go through > 4 -5 motherboard models before they find one they feel is a good one. > Then 6 months later the motherboard manufacturers discontinue that model > and they have to go through the same process again. If you want to play > in that space you need to do it the same way they do. If you don't have > the financial resources to do that, then you shouldn't be doing it. > Instead, find a local computer shop that you can pay a few hundred > bucks more than it would cost you to get all the little parts and pieces > separately, and who will warranty the thing. It is well worth it. > > >I get a line like this for each of my ports: > > > > You are wasting time. Return the motherboard and get another. Repeat > the process until it works. > > Ted
Sounds harsh, a low end board may have performance problems and less capability but it shouldnt justify an operating system not working, or are only high end boards supported? Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
