new SATA chipsets support

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Thu Mar 13 18:16:25 UTC 2008


On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:51:15 +0200
__________ ____________________________ <igor at gulfstream.by> wrote:

> I am going to build my new file- and gateway server and i wish to use any of brand new motherboards for it, such as ASUS M2N-SLI deluxe (nforce 570 SLI chipset) or Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 (AMD 790X / AMD SB600 chipset), but i can't find any information of supporting that chipsets in your current 7.0 release. Are you going to include support of that chips to your next releases, and if yes, when? Or maybe i can find that drivers somewhere else? 
> 

Try hitting <CR> once in a while. This is all one long line!

I can't speak to this, but why not use a board which is already known
to work? I'm using a Gigabyte M61P-S3 myself.

> I think that drivers from ASUS (http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-en&model=M2N-SLI%20Deluxe) may not work with FreeBSD? 
> 

These are guaranteed not to work, unless you want to port the Linux
drivers.

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Gary Jennejohn


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