Re: New project machines on order.

[Jason Smethers <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     With all the NForce chipsets, in fact, because NVidia doesn't seem
>     to be very open-source friendly people.  I'm sure there are things
>     that won't work, but since it's a server and I'm going to be 
>     throwing in a 3ware card the only thing I would really like to see
>     working, to avoid having to throw in another card, is the on-board 
>     GiGE.
>
>     In anycase, I'll give everyone a full report once I've had a chance
>     to play with it.

The newer versions of this board have a different chipset fan. Mine runs 
just below 5500rpm, and the chipset stays between 40 and 45 degrees C. 
It doesn't have the problems that earlier version have, but it is the 
loudest fan in the case.

I have one of the onboard NIC's working with the sk driver. FreeBSD 
currently has a driver, nve, for the other NIC built into the nForce4 
chipset. I suppose someone will eventually import the nve driver into 
DragonFly, now.

I have not messed with the onboard RAID controllers yet since I have yet 
to order new hard drives for it.


- Jason