Re: Sponsoring of Dual-Opteron
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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