Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine

[Martin Cracauer]

> >>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).
> >  
> >
> That used to work on my MSI nf4 board on 6.0 forward.

Can I safely test this by just plugging in a SATA cable with drive and
board on?

Martin
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