Re: a few simple questions about AMD64 version of Debian
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 10:03 am, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> --- LeLennartoSorensenlslsorensescsclubwuwaterlooa>
> I agree about Tyan, though the staff refused to talk
> with Linux users, which I did not appreciate much). A
Like they say, YMMV, results not typical. :)
I've had excellent exchanges with their tech support staff via e-mail, and
all my messages to them start off by detailing our use of FreeBSD and
Debian on the servers. The few problems we've had with the Thunder K8
series of boards have all come down to faulty riser cards (our supplier
was using the free ones that came with the rackmount case, and not any of
the ones on the Tyan compatibility lists). I've actually been quite
impressed with the Tyan support people.
> warning: with my S2895 Thunder K8WE on amamd etch I
> had problems with Maxtor HD for hard work (parallel
> computations with MPMP for several days
> uninterruptedly Alternatively one of the two HDs
> crashed after some hours work, though it was
> reconstructed on the way by Linux-driven raid1; the
> calculations suffered heavily, however. On restarting,
> everything was in order, until next crash, however.
> Mouw (The Netherlands) sorry, don't remember the
> correct spelling) suggested that that series of Maxtor
> might have problems with the nForceh chipsets on the
^^^^^^^^^
I've spent the last three years doing absolutely everything possible to
avoid the nForce chipsets (which is getting increasingly harder to
do). :) We don't have any servers running nVidia chipsets, I'm proud to
say (going all the way back to our dual-AthlonMP systems). They are all
AMD 8000-series and VIA chipsets. As such, we have had no stability
problems or driver issues running FreeBSD and Debian (32-bit and 64-bit
versions). It's too bad AMD stopped producing their own chipsets, they
were some very nice server chipsets.
Hopefully the merger with ATi means they'll be making new chipsets, and
not just gamer/pro-sumer chipsets, but real, server-class chipsets.
We have just this school year introduced client systems running nForce
(don't remember if its nForce3 or nForce4) chipsets, and that was only so
we could get proper 3D support for our Linux diskless clients without
needing a separate video card (these are tiny boxes, and we're trying to
limit the power requirements).
--
Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician
School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357]
fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca
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