support for components of Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard?
Hello all, I searched the archives for GA-965P-S3 and other permutations looking for information about the components that come on this Gigabyte motherboard. I didn't find much except stuff related to -current. Can people relate any experiences using this motherboard under -stable or -current? It appears from my reading that in -current the audio will be supported through snd_hda, correct (ICH8 + Realtek ALC883)? Does it work well? What about the Marvell 8056 ethernet? I couldn't find much information about that one though--does the msk happen to support this one too (though the man page doesn't specifically say so)? What about any PATA/SATA problems / issues / successes? Any success (or failurea) stories with the components on this motherboard (whether it be in -current or -stable) would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -Jr -- John Jennifer Reynolds johnjen at reynoldsnet.orgwww.reynoldsnet.org Structural/Physical Design - some group - Intel jreynold at sedona.ch.intel.com Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. KT7JCRFreeBSD: The Power to Serve! Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: support for components of Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard?
John Reynolds wrote: Hello all, I searched the archives for GA-965P-S3 and other permutations looking for information about the components that come on this Gigabyte motherboard. I didn't find much except stuff related to -current. I just built a new PC based on a Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 board. Not exactly the same, but it seems very similar except mine has built-in video. Since it is intended for a personal file server, all I wanted was VGA. Can people relate any experiences using this motherboard under -stable or -current? It appears from my reading that in -current the audio will be supported through snd_hda, correct (ICH8 + Realtek ALC883)? Does it work well? What about the Marvell 8056 ethernet? I couldn't find much information about that one though--does the msk happen to support this one too (though the man page doesn't specifically say so)? What about any PATA/SATA problems / issues / successes? Any success (or failurea) stories with the components on this motherboard (whether it be in -current or -stable) would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! I installed the May 2007 snapshot of current because I wanted to try ZFS. I haven't tried a lot yet, but here's what I found: DVD-RW drive connected to PATA (JMicron controller) worked fine for install. Later, a hard disk connected to the same PATA cable along with the DVD-RW also worked. SATA ports provided by ICH8 work fine in AHCI mode (only tried 1.5Gbps SATA for now). Gigabyte SATA ports as they call the 5th and 6th ports provided by the JMicron controller, probed okay, but a SATA hard disk wasn't recognized with the ports set to AHCI mode. Putting those SATA ports back to old compatible IDE mode let the disk work. I haven't tried the audio. The Marvell 8056 ethernet is supported by the msk driver. It probes and attaches okay, but, long story short, it is unusable. Pinged okay, but just trying to vi a small file over the network crashed the network connection. Another time the lights on the network switch were constantly going off and on every few seconds. It's just unusable in its current state. When I get time, I'll try to provide a proper report to -current and get some help, but for now I had to plug in an Intel card in a PCI slot. Gary ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: support for components of Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard?
[ On Monday, June 4, Gary Corcoran wrote: ] I just built a new PC based on a Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 board. Not exactly the same, but it seems very similar except mine has built-in video. Since it is intended for a personal file server, all I wanted was VGA. similar enough--I'm mostly interested in reports about the onboard NIC and sound. DVD-RW drive connected to PATA (JMicron controller) worked fine for install. Later, a hard disk connected to the same PATA cable along with the DVD-RW also worked. cool. SATA ports provided by ICH8 work fine in AHCI mode (only tried 1.5Gbps SATA for now). again, cool. I haven't tried the audio. from what I can gather it looks like -current is supporting this ICH8/RealTec combo fairly well. There appears to be diff's to apply to -STABLE with a use at your own risk type clause attached. The Marvell 8056 ethernet is supported by the msk driver. It probes and attaches okay, but, long story short, it is unusable. Pinged okay, but just trying to vi a small file over the network crashed the network connection. Another time the lights on the network switch were constantly going off and on every few seconds. It's just unusable in its current state. When I get time, I'll try to provide a proper report to -current and get some help, but for now I had to plug in an Intel card in a PCI slot. interesting ... yes, it'd be nice if this was supported, but the board has enough PCI slots to use working NICs . thanks for your report! -Jr -- John Jennifer Reynolds johnjen at reynoldsnet.orgwww.reynoldsnet.org Structural/Physical Design - some group - Intel jreynold at sedona.ch.intel.com Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. KT7JCRFreeBSD: The Power to Serve! Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: support for components of Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard?
Can people relate any experiences using this motherboard under -stable or -current? It appears from my reading that in -current the audio will be supported through snd_hda, correct (ICH8 + Realtek ALC883)? Does it work well? What about the Marvell 8056 ethernet? I couldn't find much information about that one though--does the msk happen to support this one too (though the man page doesn't specifically say so)? What about any PATA/SATA problems / issues / successes? _GA-965P-DS3_ Audio: snd_hda works reasonably well for playback (thanks Ariff!). Also, believe it or not, I'm not even disgusted with the integrated audio's quality. Net: Surprisingly, Marvell have a binary driver for 5.x and 6.x. Look for e.g. 'mykbsd60x86' package on their web site. BTW, it'd be nice if someone could make a port... Seems to work. SATA/IDE: Intel's ICH8 SATA controllers are quite good, as usual. JMicron's controller doesn't like atapicam in kernel, though (halts during boot). Might be something troubleshootable. -Jr [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non-raid PCIe SATA controller with 8 ports?
- as you mentioned, without the battery backup the cache on the controller would have to be write-through, which disabled much of the advantage of the thing. I can't have NCQ on the NVidia SATA ports, Yes, very annoying to choose hardware that supports NCQ and then discover you can't use it due to no software support. :-( Surely someone can translate this from penguin to daemon? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/archive/2.6.17-nv-adma.patch.bz2 and hence have to use the disk's write cache. Huh? Is a write-back cache in a disk somehow safer than a write-back cache in a controller? We really really need NCQ. :-/ ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
