Looking for a motherboard with lots of SATA ports, supported in 6.2-STABLE

[Patrick Proniewski]

On 1 juil. 07, at 21:31, Ravi Pokala wrote:

>>> My main concerns are that the networking is well supported (GigE  
>>> preferred of
>>> course), and that there are lots of supported on-board SATA ports. I
>>> currently have four SATA drives, so I'd prefer six or eight ports  
>>> on the new
>>> board for growth.
>>>
>>> I'd also like decent on-board graphics, on the off chance I want  
>>> to dual-boot
>>> it to play some older games. In FreeBSD, it just needs to be  
>>> supported enough
>>> to give me a VGA console.
>>>
>>
>> You probably won't find 8 SATA ports and onboard video, these two  
>> just
>> don't match. You either take a high-end board with lots of  
>> features, but
>> *never* have onboard video (IGP), of you take a microATX board with
>> onboard video which have 2 maybe 4 SATA ports.
>
> Heh. You're right of course. I wasn't able to find any 8-SATA  
> boards with
> onboard video, but I did find a few 6-SATA boards.


just take a look at these:

8 SATA / 8MB SVGA
http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7501/X5DPL-TGM.cfm

2+8 SATA / 8MB SVGA
http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7520/X6DHT-G.cfm

8 SATA / 8MB SVGA
http://supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/nforce/H8DCE-HTe.cfm

You'll probably find others at Tyan, may be with better video (more  
choice, and up to 16MB).

regards,

patpro