On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:17:20PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> I'm contemplating putting together a system based on
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7221/P8SCi.cfm .  I'm
> wondering about support for the BCM5721 GigE and Intel ICH6R SATA
> controllers.

Pkgbuild.netbsd.org has almost exactly this configuration.  It is
working well with the amd64 port and NetBSD-current from a few months
ago.

FWIW, it also has an LFS root filesystem, which has been problem-free
(and really fast!) thus far.

Thor