Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:51:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Shafron <phred1975@yahoo.com> To: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REcomomendations- New to AMD64 Platform Message-ID: <20050419025122.88868.qmail@web60002.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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I'm running the K8S Pro (2882) with 4x512Mb, 2x246 opteron and it's running great. Been up for about 2 weeks straight as of today without any problems. --- Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> wrote: > Hello: > > I'm a long time FreeBSD useer but with as of yet no > experience with the > ADM64 platform. Ready to take the plunge but want > to make sure I've > got my ducks in a row first. > > I'm considering using a Tyan based barebones, e.g. > TA26 which uses > their K8S Pro mainboard fleshed out with a couple > 246's, ZCR, 2x1 GB > DDR333, and some seagate u320 scsi drives. > Deployment will be web/ > application (maybe some Zope/ Plone/ JBoss/ Jetty/ > Tomcat stuff)/ email > and database server project. No real heavy lifting > on the db side. > > I've searched through the archives and find that > there have been > various issues in the past with the Tyan K8SR and > K8S Pro boards, but > from what I gather they were not necessarily > platform specific, e.g. > broadcom driver and > 4gb of ram, and have > apparently been resolved. > These two boards seem to use the same components but > in different > layouts. Are there any outstanding issues with one > vs. the other that > I should be aware of? > > Any feedback/advice greaty appreciated. Thanks. > > -- > Best regards, > > Ken Gunderson > GPG Key-- 9F5179FD > > "Freedom begins between the ears." -- Edward Abbey > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide
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