Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> To: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mainboard suggestions? Message-ID: <61033.24.71.131.186.1095630828.squirrel@24.71.131.186> In-Reply-To: <414CB011.4030206@withagen.nl> References: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com> <200409150829.10481.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> <414CB011.4030206@withagen.nl>
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>> The MSI Master series of mobos work very nicely with FreeBSD, both >> in 32-bit and 64-bit mode. We have a handful of the Master >> dual-AthlonMP boards, and a pair of the Master dual-Opteron boards. >> All deveices on the mobo as detected and usuable under FreeBSD >> 5.2.1 and 5.3. The VIA K8T800 chipset is very stable in our >> testing, and the SATA support is decent (didn't stress it much, but >> never had any problems with it). > Well I'd have to argue about that. I had to replace a MSI K8T > Master2-FAR board with 2 opteron 242 processors because it was causing > crashes to no end during high load. As soon as the load went over 10 > for > a longer period the board crashed. After long discussions with people > doing the amd64 port I bought a new board (Tyan Tiger), and that has > proven rock solid with all the same components. Supposedly it is > because > of "things" with the VIA chipset, but the finer details never became > clear. > And looking at others thru google, there are a lot of people not very > happy with that board. Hmmm, strange. We didn't do much in the way of stress testing, beyond loading 5.2.1, and running buildworld a bunch of times a week to bring it up to 5.3-BETA1. At that point, it was recommissioned as a Fedora Core 2 box running in 32-bit mode, for a Linux-only app. While it was runing 64-bit FreeBSD, though,we never had any problems. It was never super-loaded, though. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca
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