Re: Sponsoring of Dual-Opteron
Hold on, you're having these ECC issues too? Uh oh, that's bad news. I
just checked, your mainboard has an AMD chipset whereas mine has an
nVidia chipset.
Also I just remembered that the Opteron has an onChip memory controller
which means that I just realized something awful: There is a slim chance
that this is not a chipset, mainboard or BIOS problem - it may be a
memory controller problem and that would certainly blow...
Well keep us up to date on that instability issue ;)
Martin
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:20, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Martin Jungowski wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Try to disable ECC in BIOS Setup, that might solve your problem. We've
> > had random freezes with ECC enabled, it's too buggy to be used yet.
>
> Same here for the tyan board. I'll take a look at it as I reinstall the
> machine (tomorrow, I think).
>
> /Mattias Wadenstein
>
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:04, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Martin Jungowski wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Stability issues? Like how, what SuSE are you running, 8.2 x86-64 Beta?
> > > > If so, that's odd. I've been testing an ASUS SK8N Opteron mainboard for
> > > > over a month now, running SuSE x86-64 since there still is no Debian
> > > > x86_64 and I haven't had a single crash.
> > >
> > > Dunno, think this is the second time of some random hang.
> > >
> > > > However I was unable to use any other than the default SuSE Kernel.
> > > > 2.4.21 used to freeze right after "Uncompressing Linux.........." and
> > > > even though 2.6.0-test3 seemed to be working perfectly, I was unable to
> > > > set the DMA-flag for the harddrive via hdparm. And you guys know how
> > > > incredibly slow a system with no UDMA can be... two words: it blows.
> > > > Same issue btw with SuSE i386, no matter what Kernel I was using, no
> > > > UDMA.
> > >
> > > I was happy to use one built from debian's kernel source package of 2.4.21
> > > with some local patches from the deiban-amd64 port pages on my tyan board.
> > >
> > > > It was working fine though with the 2.4.19-64 Kernel SuSE installs by
> > > > default, so I had to use that for my testing - and what can I tell you,
> > > > not a single crash for more than a month of testing. So I'm guessing
> > > > your stability issues are not kernel-related, what chipset does that
> > > > mainboard have? What RAM do you have, Reg. ECC? ECC enabled or disabled
> > > > in BIOS setup? We've had major trouble with that SK8N after enabling
> > > > ECC, it's still too beta hence too buggy.
> > >
> > > I have no idea what hardware is in the machine, it is one of the
> > > pre-release newisys machines that amd sent around. :)
> > >
> > > So it might be hardware issues too.
> > >
> > > /Mattias Wadenstein
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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