Re: is this hardware supported?
Hi. Here I'm back with a very short report on installing FreeBSD 6.3/7.0 and others on this mainboard: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2534&ProductName=GA-G33M-DS2R It's a Gigabyte (model GA-G33M-DS2R) mainboard based on the Intel G33 + ICH9R Chipset and Intel E8200 processor. I tried to install FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0, xen 4.1 and CentOS 5.1 The results are all in favour of FreeBSD :) FreeBSD: It installs without any problem both using MB SATA fakeraid or plain SATA disk. All HW is correctly recognized and in no more than 5 minutes FreeBSD is fully installed, configured and up and running on network. No tests on graphics, though. xen: Installation fails as it says the system doesn't have a NIC. After providing the NIC driver during installation, linux doesn't see the SATA fakeraid, but only the bare disks. CentOS: Installation gets to the end and lets a bootable system, but the system doesn't recognice the NIC nor the SATA fakeraid. Graphics is correctly configured and Gnome starts up correctly. Best regards. Roberto Nunnari wrote: Roland, Thank you for your support. I'll post here the result of installing FreeBSD on that HW. Best regards. Robi. Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi! Ok. So what about this? http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307 Has anybody been using it? With what success? Can anybody use the embedded RAID controller to make a HW RAID 1 with two SATA disks? According to ata(4), the ICH8 chipset is supported. According to ataraid(4) the jmicron is supported. But if it doesn't work, you can always use gmirror(8). Is the NIC supported and working well? Hard to say. The spec page you provided doesn't list the type of Realtek chip used. Again, if it doesn't work get a cheap Realtek 8139 card. Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported HW list, so that's why I ask the list. It is better to check the manual pages of drivers. But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3 can run on this HW I recently booted FreeBSD on a system with a intel motherboard with a ICH9 chipset. Everything seemed to work OK. Roland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Robi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: is this hardware supported?
Roland, Thank you for your support. I'll post here the result of installing FreeBSD on that HW. Best regards. Robi. Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi! Ok. So what about this? http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307 Has anybody been using it? With what success? Can anybody use the embedded RAID controller to make a HW RAID 1 with two SATA disks? According to ata(4), the ICH8 chipset is supported. According to ataraid(4) the jmicron is supported. But if it doesn't work, you can always use gmirror(8). Is the NIC supported and working well? Hard to say. The spec page you provided doesn't list the type of Realtek chip used. Again, if it doesn't work get a cheap Realtek 8139 card. Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported HW list, so that's why I ask the list. It is better to check the manual pages of drivers. But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3 can run on this HW I recently booted FreeBSD on a system with a intel motherboard with a ICH9 chipset. Everything seemed to work OK. Roland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: is this hardware supported?
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Hi! > > Ok. So what about this? > http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307 > > Has anybody been using it? > With what success? > Can anybody use the embedded RAID controller to make a HW RAID 1 > with two SATA disks? According to ata(4), the ICH8 chipset is supported. According to ataraid(4) the jmicron is supported. But if it doesn't work, you can always use gmirror(8). > Is the NIC supported and working well? Hard to say. The spec page you provided doesn't list the type of Realtek chip used. Again, if it doesn't work get a cheap Realtek 8139 card. > Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported > HW list, so that's why I ask the list. It is better to check the manual pages of drivers. > But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3 > can run on this HW I recently booted FreeBSD on a system with a intel motherboard with a ICH9 chipset. Everything seemed to work OK. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpLizwu8qyuC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: is this hardware supported?
Hi! Ok. So what about this? http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307 Has anybody been using it? With what success? Can anybody use the embedded RAID controller to make a HW RAID 1 with two SATA disks? Is the NIC supported and working well? Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported HW list, so that's why I ask the list. But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3 can run on this HW It's a Asus P5B, with intel P965 / ICH8 chipset With that MB I would like to build a small FreeBSD 6.3 home server with: - 1 cpu Intel CORE2DUO E4600 - 2 GB DDR2-RAM Patriot DDR2 2GB Kit, PC6400 - 2 sata drives (HW RAID 1) Any comment/hint welcome. Thank you. Best regards. -- Robi Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 02:12:28AM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi! I would like to buy the following motherboard but I couldn't find its chipsets in the 6.3 supported HW list: So, I thought to ask the list for comments. http://www.gigabyte.de/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2613&ProductName=GA-73PVM-S2H It's a GigaByte GA-73PVM-S2H What I'm worring about is expecially the sata disk controller: GeForce 7100/nForce 630i chipset and the network interface: RTL 8211B chip I would avoid Nvidia chipsets. For Athlon processors, I've had the best results with motherboards with a AMD or VIA chipset. For Intel processors, VIA or intel chipsets are fine. Roland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: is this hardware supported?
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 02:12:28AM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to buy the following motherboard but > I couldn't find its chipsets in the 6.3 supported HW list: > > So, I thought to ask the list for comments. > > http://www.gigabyte.de/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2613&ProductName=GA-73PVM-S2H > > It's a GigaByte GA-73PVM-S2H > > What I'm worring about is expecially the sata disk controller: > GeForce 7100/nForce 630i chipset > > and the network interface: > RTL 8211B chip I would avoid Nvidia chipsets. For Athlon processors, I've had the best results with motherboards with a AMD or VIA chipset. For Intel processors, VIA or intel chipsets are fine. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpU2d39LejYw.pgp Description: PGP signature
