Re: [osol-discuss] AMD based motherboard recommendations?

2009-10-26 Thread andrew
I can confirm the Asus M3A78-EM works nicely with OS. I've been running this since ~200811 with an AM2 proc, 4x 2GB DDR2 ECC DIMMs and a combination of onboard SATA and an AOC-USASLP-L8i. The onboard SATA controller (5x ports +1 eSATA) works in both IDE and SATA mode (although I recall some

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD based motherboard recommendations?

2009-10-25 Thread John Martin
Dieter Kluenter wrote: In fact there are two ASUS boards, M3N78 and M4A78, with regard to DDR3 read on the AMD limitations. I doubt that the S-ATA chips are supported, as S-ATA support of OpenSolaris is still poor. nv_sata: CK804, MCP51 and MCP55 ahci: Intel ICH6-10, VIA VT8251 and JMicron

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD based motherboard recommendations?

2009-10-25 Thread ken mays
Hugh, Review the GigaByte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P and Asus M4A78T-E. Enjoy, Ken Mays --- On Sat, 10/24/09, Hugh McIntyre li...@mcintyreweb.com wrote: From: Hugh McIntyre li...@mcintyreweb.com Subject: [osol-discuss] AMD based motherboard recommendations? To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] AMD based motherboard recommendations?

2009-10-24 Thread Hugh McIntyre
I'm looking for a new AMD-based motherboard that can take an AM3 CPU (so an AM3 or AM2+ motherboard is in scope). Obviously I'm checking the HCL, but the HCL does not necessarily answer the following questions: - What's are the current recommendations if I want to make sure power