Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Tm4528 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:50 AM
> To: tedm at toybox.placo.com
> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
> 
> 
> Teddy,
> 
> Its the most prevalent and popolar chipset on the market, Ted. At

Strange then that none of my servers that run FreeBSD have this chip.
Strange also that none of the developers have noticed this.

I wonder if this is because I look at the hardware recommendations
first - before buying hardware?  Like on places like 
http://www.testdrive.hp.com/   where I can actually log into HP
systems running FreeBSD and try it out myself?  Nawwwwww!

Is it possible that it's the most popular because it's the cheapest
low-end chipset out there, fit only for desktop systems running the
latest game from Id Software?   Nawwwww!

At least in the United States retailers are held to a 30 day warranty
on products - if you buy one of these problematic motherboards and
find that FreeBSD doesen't run on it, then take it back and get
a different one.

Ted