Motherboard Chipset Support List

[Ivan Carey]

youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Sean Murphy wrote:
>
>> I am having troubling installing FreeBSD 6.2 Release on and Intel 
>> DG965OT
>>
>> http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG965OT/index.htm
>>
>> Which uses the Intel® G965 Chipset
>>
>> I have checked under the following link but it does not mention 
>> support for specific motherboards or chipsets.  I realize that 
>> listing motherboards would be to exhaustive but chipsets maybe would 
>> be more of a limited scope.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html
>>
>> Does FreeBSD provide a list for Chipsets? Is there a man page I can 
>> look at like the other drivers listed on that page have man pages 
>> except for Chipsets?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Sean,
>      G965 is a recent chipset, so I suggest that you download a 
> snapshot build of the livecd and install using that. The snapshot 
> folder is located at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/.
> -Garrett
>
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Hello Sean,
I recently asked the same question at www.expert-exchange.com and the 
answer I received is that the board is supported.
have a look at the product brief for the mother board   
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/g965/prod_brief.pdf   it says the 
the I/O controller hub is an ICH8
and the FreeBSD 6.2 release notes for the ata(4) driver 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE 


I am still learning myself how to understand the release notes.
Ivan