Matthew Dillon wrote:
I've upgraded my test boxes to a new generation. The Shuttle SN78SH7 barebones (meaning one must buy the cpu, memory, and drives separately), with a Phenom x4 cpu pretty much just works. Everything probes and it boots up without complaint. Dmesg output is here:http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/ShuttleSN78SH7.txt This baby doesn't have any PS/2 connectors. The keyboard/mouse is all USB, and does appear to work just fine. I also went with both a SATA HD and a SATA DVD-RW, so no IDE stuff at all in my box. I got the whole mess from newegg.com, it was delivered smartly and ridiculously cheap for the horsepower it represents. I already had the hard drives. Everything else came to less then $600 per box (shuttle, cpu, memory, DVD-RW). -- In anycase, the major reason for updating was to get some test boxes worked up with native AHCI hardware so I can port the OpenBSD AHCI driver. So I am now officially porting that driver and I expect to have it done for our July release. OpenBSD has a very nice implementation which fully supports command queueing and being able to separate out the AHCI support from the NATA driver will allow us to slowly phase-out the NATA driver for all-SATA systems. I also think we can get removable SATA working (something we want since ESATA is becoming the new standard for external hard drives). -MattMatthew Dillon <[email protected]>
Matt, Where will 'phaseout' leave natacontrol RAID et al? Bill
