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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.
>
> I see that if_bge nominally supports the Ethernet card, but there are
> warnings in the driver that seem to imply that it might not really work=

> well.
>
> I don't know about the SATA controller; I do know that it works on
> FreeBSD.  I don't need the hardware RAID support.
>
> Ideally, this machine would run 3.1; more likely, it would run some
> snapshot of -current for the better Xen support.
>
> 		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>  =20

I have a system that's based on a very similar SuperMicro board - it has
Intel GigE instead of Broadcom, but the SATA controller is the same.  It
works out of the box with 3.1, but there is a minor bug in -current
(which is being worked on, should be fixed in 4.0) which requires the
sata controller to be set in "Enhanced" mode in the BIOS for it to
work.  Thus far (~4 days), I'm happy with it.

+j



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