Re: Sil3124 + Sil4726 PortMultipier and FreeBSD9


On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus@eternamente.info> wrote:
> hail,
>
> I've heard great things about sil3124 and FreeBSD 8+ (saw mav@ talking in lists and forum). But
> I'm planning a home server, I already have an Atom board from Intel (old Atom 330), Soekris
> 6501-70 and Sil3124 PCI. I saw that both ICH7 and NM10 can't deal with port multipliers, so my
> focus is on the Sil3124 now. I heard from internet that Sil4726+SIl3124 got random resets,
> although that was some time ago and on linux lists.
>
> So as I'm about to buy the Port Multiplier, and as I'll run FreeBSD 9 on it, anyone here have any
> experiences on this regard and is willing to share ?
>
> this is a small footprint server, I plan to have 6-8 disks and may become ZFS based.
>
> I plan to buy this port multiplier http://www.addonics.com/products/ad5sahpm-ea.php

What are your requirements (need compile toolchain, needs to be a
fileserver, etc)?
Thanks,
-Garrett
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