--- "Johan M:son Lindman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03.31, you wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18.47, Mike wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Anyone here using one of the Supermicro AMD > 8131-based > > > motherboards on their OBSD system? If these are > > > unsuitable for OpenBSD, then what AMD64 or > Opteron > > > motherboards are the current cream of the crop > that do > > > work well with OpenBSD? > > > > HP DL145 (G1) work well, dmesg below, haven't > tried Supermicro. > > Though you should probably want to avoid the newer > Nvidia nForce 4 based > > Opteron motherboards which seems to be all the > rage these days. > > nForce4 has got several issues with smp (ehci, > AC97 and SATA not working > > with GENERIC.MP) and it's not able to find all > ppb(4)s properly. > > > It should be noted that the ppb problem is only > known to happen on the HP > DL145 G2 server. > > > Regards > Johan M:son > >
Thanks for the heads up on the Proliants. I got a few replies to my inquiry offlist as well, which I'd like to thank everyone for once again. Right now I'm leaning very heavily towards the Supermicro H8DAE motherboard. It looks like everything is supported on the board by OpenBSD and appears to be built like a brick sh*thouse. There is an optional IMPI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) 2.0 and a RMM (remote management module) card for this thing and I'm clueless - would anyone know if OpenBSD would make use of these? http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/8131/H8DAE.cfm Anywho, unless something else climbs up my shorts, this looks to be the board I want. Mike
