Re: Sponsoring of Dual-Opteron
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.
Martin
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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