Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 16:17 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Gavin Atkinson wrote:
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> >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).
> >>>
> >>>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.

Hmm, well that's promising.  This is with:
atapci1 at pci0:7:0:       class=0x010485 card=0x5348108e chip=0x005410de
rev=0xf3 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
    device   = 'nForce4 Serial ATA Controller'
    class    = mass storage
    subclass = RAID

I don't know if it makes any difference, but the board has on-board
NVIDIA RAID, which I'm considerably less than impressed with.  I'll
build one of them without the on-board RAID support and see if
hot-insert works.  I don't have the logs (long story, but basically the
RAID bios hosed my data) but I think it failed to notice the inserted
disk, and was timing out while trying to select the channel when forced
with an atacontrol reinit.

Gavin