Hi all,
I've been tasked with setting up a new FreeBSD network file server. I've
been spending the last day fighting an ASUS A8N-VM CSM motherboard, and
I've given up on that hopeless battle. The ACPI is horribly broken, the
ethernet and PATA/SATA aren't supported on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, FreeBSD
6-STABLE recognises the disk controllers but then hits a bug that
prevents it from using one of the disks, I've had enough. I was prepared
to tough it out with the ATA/33 limit on the generic controller support,
until a future release properly supports them, but this morning the
machine started throwing "DANGER Will Robinson" messages regarding the
SATA drives.
I have a preference for nVidia chipsets, but if there's something else
that will work and has decent FreeBSD support I'll take it.
Here are my requirements
Socket 939
At least four SATA headers
(preferably) At least two PATA headers
PCIe Gigabit Ethernet
Reliable ATA system operation on the board is a MUST! This machine's
primary purpose is going to be reading and writing those drives! Those
damned UDMA timeouts and other ATA problems I've seen cropping up
randomly over the last two years are NOT acceptable.
After troubleshooting the nVidia RAID on this motherboard, and reading
online about these "fake RAID" implementations, I'm pretty much planning
on sticking with FreeBSD's "Pseudo-RAID". Can anyone offer any feedback
on the reliability of FreeBSD's "Pseudo-RAID" system?
Just in case anyone's interested, here are the rest of the components
that will be used with the system.
Seasonic 430w S12 powersupply
Western Digital 80G PATA drive
Pioneer PATA DVD Multidrive
2 x Seagate 7200.9 300GB SATA drives (mirrored) in
a SNT-3141-SATA 4-drive SATA enclosure (Not sure who made this)
Any feedback would be much appreciated. I'm desperate to avoid jumping
to Linux on this one, because I know that will turn into a huge pain in
the ass later on.
- Andrew
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