Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 19:45:34 -0500 From: John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> To: Adrian Gonzalez <adrianbsd@globalpc.net>, <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel E7500 chipset mobos Message-ID: <B8CFBADE.2B4B%john@essenz.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020402182329.01042a80@globalpc.net>
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Brian, TYAN has done their own FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris testing on the E7500. Interestingly, it is fully supported under Solaris 8, but their are some problems with Linux and FreeBSD. I think the FreeBSD problems are network related, but they might be resolved by now. In a short while, all these problems will definitely be resolved. However...... I am very wary of Intel chipsets and would not use the i860 or i7500 based boards. Serverworks chipset has performed wonderfully for Dual PIII - 4Gb SDRAM systems. Serverworks currently has a chipset (Serverworks GC-LE) for Dual and Quad P4 Xeon which supports in excess of 12 GB DDR memory. Supermicro has this chipset available for Dual P4 Xeon with the P4DLR board. TYAN is working a similar board, but wont be available for a few months. TYAN is also working on a Quad P4 Xeon Serverworks board. You can still build Dual PIII's but it is a little compliacted. Say you get the TYAN S2518 Serverworks board. It uses PC133 ECC SDRAM up to 4GB and Dual PIII's. For the processor, you can get the "new" PIII 1.13 or 1.26 GHz 512k FC-PGA2 processors. This is where it gets tricky, if you get the PIII 1.13 or 1.26 GHz 256k FC-PGA2 processors, dual processing wont work, you have to get the 512k FC-PGA2. These 512k chips are sort-of in production, and your guaranteed to have nice stable system. The new i7500 stuff might get hairy. I recommend a Dual PIII 512k FC-PGA2 system or waiting a month or two, then checking out the i7500 stuff again. John Von Essen President, Essenz Consulting (www.essenz.com) EMAIL: john@essenz.com DIRECT PHONE: (800) 248-1736 International: +01 814 861 0922 on 4/2/02 7:23 PM, adrianbsd@globalpc.net wrote: > > Hello > > Has anybody tried these dual P4 Xeon boards with FreeBSD? Like the > Supermicro SUPER P4DP6 or the Tyan Thunder i7500(S2720)? The Tyan board > even requires a special Case/PS and has a Gigabit ethernet port, but I > don't think that chipset is supported yet? > > Basically I'm building a new server and need 64bit PCI slots, and don't > really want to go with the older dual pIII boards... Suggestions welcome > > Thanks > > -Adrian > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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