AMD motherboards

[James Tanis]

	As far as I know the majority of AMD boards work perfectly fine. Unfortunately FreeBSD doesn't support SATA very much in general. You must have FreeBSD v5.1 beta or newer installed and the only controllers it seems to support are Promise SATA150 TX2/TX4 Serial ATA/150. I have SIIG's SATA card it doesn't seem to be supported at all. The onboard audio works perfectly fine, at least with the majority of boards that use the C-Media 8738 controller. It seems to me that FreeBSD's audio support is broad enough to support most any audio card (integrated or not) out there. You'll need to read the documentation and recompile the kernel since it does not come stock with support for audio. As far as recommended boards go, I'd just make sure to get one that supports the new barton core (or whatever the newest XP chip's core is called). I've used mostly Asus boards since I've gone AMD and their fine, I've been told Gigabyte is good also. If I were you, I'd just do some research and find o
 ut what the best chipsets are currently as I feel thats more important then a brand name in the long run. I believe raid is supported on some Promise controllers, but I no longer have the hardware to verify that. If you want more definitive answers read the hardware notes, you'll need to know the models/chipsets to find out for sure. You'll find the newest documentation at http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/#current.

On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:11:48 -0500
Glenn Johnson <gjohnson at srrc.ars.usda.gov> wrote:

> I am getting ready to upgrade a system with a new motherboard.  It will
> be a board for an AMD-XP processor.  It seems all of the boards I have
> looked at have a lot of integrated stuff I do not want but I have a few
> questions about FreeBSD support.
> 
> [1] Do any of the onboard audio systems work with FreeBSD?
> 
> [2] Do any of the onboard RAID controllers (Promise) work with FreeBSD?
>     Are they worthwhile?
> 
> [3] What is the level of support for SATA in FreeBSD?
> 
> [4] Any particular boards to avoid?  Any particular boards that are
>     better than others?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any input.
> 
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> Glenn Johnson
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