Hello everybody!
well, the subject is explicit: I'm trying to use my dug-out from old junk computer.
It has got a A7V8X-X motherboard (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_Socket_A/A7V8XX/#specifications) with an Athlon XP 2800+ proc (AXDA2800DKV4D). It also had 512Mo of DDR, but I'll throw it out for 2Go of DDR (PC3200), the max allowed by the MB. (btw, can I leave it on the 3rd slot while the 2 1Go are on the first two?)
The system is 32bits and with only 2Go of RAM I may use UFS.
Of course, the MB is not equipped with SATA controllers, so I planned on buying a cheap PCI SATA controller. Any suggestion?
If not, I found a cheap model, but I would have appreciated more SATA ports: http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00111318.html (french website, sorry guys :) )
Moreover, I'm not convinced it will be supported by openBSD (I did saw this page: www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/hardware.html#DISK but I don't know what the disk controller is).
I found cards with more than 2 SATA ports, but they're like 5 times more expensive than the cheap one so I figured out why not buy 2 cheap ones?
Is there any limitation on the HDD capacity with the UFS? (I have at least 2x2TB+2x1TB disk to plug in)
Another topic is the ethernet port. Should I buy a PCI card for a 1000Mps port? or is the 100Mps enough?
I read I need a 2Go drive for the OS. I'm worried the usb thumb will die quickly because of the R/W ops. Should I use a small IDE HDD? (which will still be way oversized)
Last word, can make any use of the graphic card still inside for now?
Thanks a lot for having read me so far =)
and, of course, for any help you could bring me!
well, the subject is explicit: I'm trying to use my dug-out from old junk computer.
It has got a A7V8X-X motherboard (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_Socket_A/A7V8XX/#specifications) with an Athlon XP 2800+ proc (AXDA2800DKV4D). It also had 512Mo of DDR, but I'll throw it out for 2Go of DDR (PC3200), the max allowed by the MB. (btw, can I leave it on the 3rd slot while the 2 1Go are on the first two?)
The system is 32bits and with only 2Go of RAM I may use UFS.
Of course, the MB is not equipped with SATA controllers, so I planned on buying a cheap PCI SATA controller. Any suggestion?
If not, I found a cheap model, but I would have appreciated more SATA ports: http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00111318.html (french website, sorry guys :) )
Moreover, I'm not convinced it will be supported by openBSD (I did saw this page: www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/hardware.html#DISK but I don't know what the disk controller is).
I found cards with more than 2 SATA ports, but they're like 5 times more expensive than the cheap one so I figured out why not buy 2 cheap ones?
Is there any limitation on the HDD capacity with the UFS? (I have at least 2x2TB+2x1TB disk to plug in)
Another topic is the ethernet port. Should I buy a PCI card for a 1000Mps port? or is the 100Mps enough?
I read I need a 2Go drive for the OS. I'm worried the usb thumb will die quickly because of the R/W ops. Should I use a small IDE HDD? (which will still be way oversized)
Last word, can make any use of the graphic card still inside for now?
Thanks a lot for having read me so far =)
and, of course, for any help you could bring me!