Need motherboard for home fileserver

[Stefan Esser]

Andrey V. Elsukov schrieb:
> TooMany Secrets wrote:
>> 2007/10/8, Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org>:
>>> Well, you may want to take a look at the Abit AN-M2 (or -M2HD, if you
>>> are interested in firewire support, or possibly in HDMI/HDCP). All
>>> functions appear to be well supported (disk, video, sound, integrated
>>> PCIe Gigabit Ethernet). Combined with an "Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
>>> PWM" it gives a cheap, compact, and quiet (and power-efficient!) small
>>> server with quite good performance (though with only a limited number
>>> of PCIe and PCI slots, since it has a uATX form factor).
>>
>> I'm very interested in this mb, but is correctly supported in
>> 6.2-STABLE also?
> 
> There is one issue. ATI IXP600/IXP700 not yet supported with ata(4)
> driver. And you will have only UDMA33 is the best case. But you can
> found a patch in gnats (PR ).
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116125

No, the Abit AN-M2(HD) are based on nForce chip-sets (630a with
integrated 7025/7050 graphics), no patch is required for ata(4)
(since the SATA/IDE parts are mostly identical to the nF6150/430,
with the addition of AHCI support, which can be optionally enabled
in the BIOS).

Regards, STefan