Re: [9fans] how about intel D510MO
> Is intelD510MOa good choise? I am trying to make intel D510MO to be my home server now. Here are several notes (to save your time): - Configure SATA to IDE mode in BIOS. - Install Erik's 9atom.iso. - Set *sdC0dma=on in plan9.ini. - Disable automatic blanking of the screen. The Plan9 works on this MB, but running just one core (instead of 4) - missing MP table. That's all for now. Pavel
Re: [9fans] how about intel D510MO
> However since the Atom doesn't support ECC RAM (for that matter > neither does the mighty Core i7) I'm somewhat cautious about trusting > it as an always on file server without additional checksums in > software. Pretty much all AMD chips support ECC RAM, although of > course mobo/BIOS support is a different matter. i think you're right. ecc hardware is hard to live without. i have not used ecc memory with amd hardware. so i can't comment on that. but if you want ecc with intel hardware, you just need to get the xeon version of the processor: socket 1156 core iX xeon [elwx]3[45]xx socket 1366 core i7 xeon [elwx][35][56]xx you can get the xeon versions at a similar price to the core iX versions, but usually the frequency is a bit lower. ecc motherboards can be competitive, too. it looks like newegg is selling the x8sil for $159. it comes with two fairly nice i82574 nics. i can verify that this motherboard works correctly. - erik
Re: [9fans] how about intel D510MO
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi everyone, I've been playing plan9 in qemu for sometime now. the > only computer I have is a PS3/ubuntu9.04, and I'm thinking about buy a > low cost x86 board for plan9. Is intel D510MO a good choise? I can't comment on how this motherboard runs Plan 9 but I'm using it as a headless Linux server to run venti and do Go programming. I put it into a mini-box.com M350 enclosure w/ their 80W picoPSU-80 power supply (selling in a kit for $69). Add some RAM and a hard drive and you have a very compact, reasonably powerful system. Since the board is passively cooled w/ a heat sink and the PSU plugs right into the board, the only noise comes from the HD. Most sites rate the idle power draw at ~20 watts. Overall I'm very pleased w/ it. I should note though that the case does get warm above the heat sink. However since the Atom doesn't support ECC RAM (for that matter neither does the mighty Core i7) I'm somewhat cautious about trusting it as an always on file server without additional checksums in software. Pretty much all AMD chips support ECC RAM, although of course mobo/BIOS support is a different matter. John
Re: [9fans] how about intel D510MO
On Thu Apr 1 06:21:58 EDT 2010, zhao...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi everyone, I've been playing plan9 in qemu for sometime now. the > only computer I have is a PS3/ubuntu9.04, and I'm thinking about buy a > low cost x86 board for plan9. Is intel D510MO a good choise? i don't know, but the prior generation of atom motherboards from intel were a very poor choice for plan 9 since they didn't provide proper mp interrupt tables and. this made it very difficult to use both processors and we were also missing some irq routing information that caused some bad interactions with the southbridge. there's a chance there's no similar irq routing problem on the current motherboard, but i'd recommend something else. i am currently running a supermicro x7spa-h (d510 processor) as my terminal and an x7sla-h as a test mule. - erik