Re: [gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations
Dennis, I have recently bought an ABIT AV8, and it's performing very very well. It has onboard SATA and RAID, though you can go with an external card, I think. Check out at http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=175 -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations
If you want S-ATA raid, absolutely have a look at Areca controllers. We run a 24x S-ATA 250 GB disk system on Intel 7501 dual Xeon board, and had quite some trouble with the 2 3Ware 9500-12 controllers under 2.6 kernel, from lock-ups to file corruption. Recently replaced the 3Ware controllers with 3 Areca 8 port controllers, and the server is running absolutely stable under very heavy load. And whatever anyone may say or benchmark, the Areca's are a lot faster. Subsequent bonnie++ benchmarks report over 220 MB/s write, over 280 MB/s read for a singel controller in RAID 5. Why loose half your capacity and do RAID 10 ... Never got the 3Wares in RAID 5 over 100 MB/s read write under kernel 2.6, whatever tweaking I tried. Was a lot better with 2.4 though, but no go for my system because of the kernel's 2TB limit. I plan to build a new server now, it is definitely going to be Tyan K8S + Areca controllers, probably the same 24x S-ATA system with 250 GB disks, or a 16x S-ATA system with 400 GB disks. And the exisiting server is also going to be upgraded to 64 bit. On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:45 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > > >Hi all, > > > >It's time for a new computer and I'm interested in folks thoughts about > >motherboards for Athlon 64 CPUs. I intend to use SATA RAID1 via a 3ware > >card. The machine will be used for a workstation as well as a server > >that I use to store applications to be installed on other workstations, > >as well as disk images. It will also be acting as a WINS server for > >about 170 windoze boxen, and will be running Gentoo (of course!). The > >workstation duties will be fairly light, and I'm looking for something > >that's good at kicking out lots of data to other workstations. > > > >Cheers, > >Dennis > > > > > tyan mobo work veeery well here, it also has a 3ware 8006 with 4 disk in > a raid 10 configuration. > recently one disk of the raid has crashed, and 3ware has show very bad > in rebuild the array with a new disk (google for it). > Read performances for a raid 10 are teorically 400% but I've measured > them not to be more than 200% here. > I can assure that adaptec PATA raid are worst, and never tryed promise > have a good choice > > francesco > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Karl Huysmans Engineering & IT ACE Digital House Schiphollaan 2 - 1140 Brussels - Belgium T: +32 2 735 60 20 F: +32 2 734 09 63 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ace-postproduction.com This e-mail and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error please immediately notify me at (32)2 735 60 20 and permanently delete the original copy and any copy of any e-mail, and any printout thereof. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations
I would make sure (if you are going to use an msi board that the capacitors are not made in taiwan go for the japanese made ones. There is a lawsuit against msi for bad capacitors but you can google it --- Somewhere around Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:08:04AM -0800, a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] went like this: > Hi all, > > It's time for a new computer and I'm interested in folks thoughts about > motherboards for Athlon 64 CPUs. I intend to use SATA RAID1 via a 3ware > card. The machine will be used for a workstation as well as a server > that I use to store applications to be installed on other workstations, > as well as disk images. It will also be acting as a WINS server for > about 170 windoze boxen, and will be running Gentoo (of course!). The > workstation duties will be fairly light, and I'm looking for something > that's good at kicking out lots of data to other workstations. I just installed the gentoo on an MSI Neo2 Ultra based on the NForce3 chipset. It seems to work fine. In order to use the LiveCD I had to send the "noapic" switch to the kernel otherwise the builtin network card didn't work. Once I built my own kernel the machine flies. I too am using SATA (no RAID) and haven't had to do anything special to make it all work. Bill -- Protect your computer - Browse with Firefox! Gentoo Linux - Flexible, Powerful Just because something doesn't do what you planned, doesn't mean its useless. Thomas Edison Thanks John Coder -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hi all, It's time for a new computer and I'm interested in folks thoughts about motherboards for Athlon 64 CPUs. I intend to use SATA RAID1 via a 3ware card. The machine will be used for a workstation as well as a server that I use to store applications to be installed on other workstations, as well as disk images. It will also be acting as a WINS server for about 170 windoze boxen, and will be running Gentoo (of course!). The workstation duties will be fairly light, and I'm looking for something that's good at kicking out lots of data to other workstations. Cheers, Dennis tyan mobo work veeery well here, it also has a 3ware 8006 with 4 disk in a raid 10 configuration. recently one disk of the raid has crashed, and 3ware has show very bad in rebuild the array with a new disk (google for it). Read performances for a raid 10 are teorically 400% but I've measured them not to be more than 200% here. I can assure that adaptec PATA raid are worst, and never tryed promise have a good choice francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations
Somewhere around Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:08:04AM -0800, a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] went like this: > Hi all, > > It's time for a new computer and I'm interested in folks thoughts about > motherboards for Athlon 64 CPUs. I intend to use SATA RAID1 via a 3ware > card. The machine will be used for a workstation as well as a server > that I use to store applications to be installed on other workstations, > as well as disk images. It will also be acting as a WINS server for > about 170 windoze boxen, and will be running Gentoo (of course!). The > workstation duties will be fairly light, and I'm looking for something > that's good at kicking out lots of data to other workstations. I just installed the gentoo on an MSI Neo2 Ultra based on the NForce3 chipset. It seems to work fine. In order to use the LiveCD I had to send the "noapic" switch to the kernel otherwise the builtin network card didn't work. Once I built my own kernel the machine flies. I too am using SATA (no RAID) and haven't had to do anything special to make it all work. Bill -- Protect your computer - Browse with Firefox! Gentoo Linux - Flexible, Powerful Just because something doesn't do what you planned, doesn't mean its useless. Thomas Edison pgpB0UxHT4149.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations
> > It's time for a new computer and I'm interested in folks thoughts about > motherboards for Athlon 64 CPUs. I intend to use SATA RAID1 via a 3ware > card. The machine will be used for a workstation as well as a server > that I use to store applications to be installed on other workstations, > as well as disk images. It will also be acting as a WINS server for > about 170 windoze boxen, and will be running Gentoo (of course!). The > workstation duties will be fairly light, and I'm looking for something > that's good at kicking out lots of data to other workstations. > I'd use a 2P Opteron based motherboard. Tyan has been pretty good as has Arima for us. And IWill seems pretty solid. I'd stay away from MSI. They seem to have some reliability issues - we lost the memory channels on one cpu after 1 yr. of use. Look for one with dual GigE ports, AGP slot, and PCI-X. We do lots of data transfers over GigE weekly - iso installs to other systems. Thus NFS, TFTP, BOOTP all get beat on. As can be seen, we're still on 2.6.5, as I've been waiting for 2.6.10 to be marked stable, though I run it on my other AMD64 systems - Operating System Information Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Wed Apr 28 10:24:41 PDT 2004 on x86_64 Bob -- - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations
Hi all, It's time for a new computer and I'm interested in folks thoughts about motherboards for Athlon 64 CPUs. I intend to use SATA RAID1 via a 3ware card. The machine will be used for a workstation as well as a server that I use to store applications to be installed on other workstations, as well as disk images. It will also be acting as a WINS server for about 170 windoze boxen, and will be running Gentoo (of course!). The workstation duties will be fairly light, and I'm looking for something that's good at kicking out lots of data to other workstations. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
