Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine

[Søren Schmidt]

Gavin Atkinson wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:55 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
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>>Cian Hughes wrote on Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:55:02PM +0000: 
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>>>Hey, I'm in no rush on this one, but I'm planning on building a new  
>>>Athlon AMD64 machine, It's primarily as a voip server and file  
>>>storage box for home use and will have 8 SATA (possibly SATA-II)  
>>>drives attached to a RAID 5 card, probably Highpoint (but i'm open on  
>>>this).
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>>>I am wondering, what have people on this list built recently, within  
>>>these bounds, I'm looking to choose a motherboard with one or two  
>>>1000Base-T Ethernet ports (to keep PCI's free for other things, ISDN  
>>>card, TV Tuner, etc...), if possible what has and hasn't worked, i'm  
>>>not too worried about onboard HD controllers, etc.
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>>I have a DFI SLI-DRI which is NForce 4 based and I am overall amazed
>>how well it works.  In particular the SATA controller (only tested the
>>first 4 ports).
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>Out of interest, does FreeBSD correctly notice the hot-inserting of SATA
>drives on this board?  I'm fighting with an NForce 4 based system at the
>moment which notices the hot removal but needs a reboot before it
>notices a new drive has been inserted (under FreeBSD, Linux and
>Solaris).
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That used to work on my MSI nf4 board on 6.0 forward.

-Søren