Re: Motherboards for Ryzen 9 (was: ...)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 06:27:02 UTC
On Monday, 13 November 2023 at 6:46:10 +0100, Daniel Engberg wrote: > On 2023-11-13T00:22:31.000+01:00, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> On Sunday, 12 November 2023 at 13:49:49 +0100, Paul Floyd wrote: >>> On 12-11-23 11:35, Daniel Engberg wrote: >>>> On Sunday, 12 November 2023 at 9:46:18 +0100, Paul Floyd wrote: >>>>> MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk >> >> FWIW, I've just got a machine with this motherboard. It seemed the >> best option available to me at the time, and I haven't had any >> issues with it. Yes, the silly NIC (where do you find 2.5 Gb/s >> hubs?) is irritating, but I need 2 NICs anyway, so putting in a >> second wasn't an issue. I also couldn't find any motherboard that >> fitted the other requirements and didn't have this NIC. > > Nice! So the sata controller gets initialized correctly even on newer > BIOS versions? Oh. I don't have any SATA devices, so I can't say for sure, but this looks concerning: pcib19: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 13.0 on pci11 pcib19: failed to allocate initial memory window: 0xfb200000-0xfb3fffff pci19: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib19 ahci0: <AHCI SATA controller> mem 0xfb800000-0xfb8003ff at device 0.0 on pci19 ahci0: AHCI controller reset failure device_attach: ahci0 attach returned 6 On the other hand, I also have: pcib21: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 13.0 on pci4 pcib21: failed to allocate initial memory window: 0xfb800000-0xfb8fffff pci21: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib21 ahci0: <AHCI SATA controller> mem 0xfbb00000-0xfbb003ff at device 0.0 on pci21 ahci0: AHCI v1.31 with 6 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0 ahcich1: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci0 ahcich2: <AHCI channel> at channel 2 on ahci0 ahcich3: <AHCI channel> at channel 3 on ahci0 So at some later date, when I want to connect SATA drives, I may run into issues. > Does the Realtek NIC work ootb or do you need to use the driver in > ports tree? It doesn't work OOTB. As I said, I have a second NIC, and that's what I'm using. I'm planning to try the Realtek NIC later, but currently I'm trying to catch up on 10 years of main desktop configuration and multiple monitors. The old machine still works, so I'm planning to take my time and "do it right", which could take weeks. > 2.5G switches aren't that uncommon these days, > > ... Thanks for the info. The NIC also does 1000baseT, right? Since this is the only machine that's faster, it doesn't help much, so I'll use 1000baseT. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php