Need motherboard for home fileserver

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Mon Oct 8 05:07:06 PDT 2007


TooMany Secrets wrote:
> 2007/10/8, Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org>:
>> Well, you may want to take a look at the Abit AN-M2 (or -M2HD, if you
>> are interested in firewire support, or possibly in HDMI/HDCP). All
>> functions appear to be well supported (disk, video, sound, integrated
>> PCIe Gigabit Ethernet). Combined with an "Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
>> PWM" it gives a cheap, compact, and quiet (and power-efficient!) small
>> server with quite good performance (though with only a limited number
>> of PCIe and PCI slots, since it has a uATX form factor).
> 
> I'm very interested in this mb, but is correctly supported in 6.2-STABLE also?

There is one issue. ATI IXP600/IXP700 not yet supported with ata(4) 
driver. And you will have only UDMA33 is the best case. But you can
found a patch in gnats (PR ). 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116125

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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