Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Eirik Øverby wrote: Adaptec AAC-2410SA 4-Port S-ATA RAID Controller This one is gonna be tricky on you, I think. Should work fine. I was using a 2200S, which uses the same aac driver under 5-CURRENT on amd64 a while back before I downgraded to i386 version. And I

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-19 Thread Eirik Oeverby
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 00:57 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Eirik Øverby wrote: Adaptec AAC-2410SA 4-Port S-ATA RAID Controller This one is gonna be tricky on you, I think. Should work fine. I was using a 2200S, which uses the same aac driver

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 19, 2004, at 2:17 AM, Eirik Oeverby wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 00:57 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Eirik Øverby wrote: Adaptec AAC-2410SA 4-Port S-ATA RAID Controller This one is gonna be tricky on you, I think. Should work fine. I was using a

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-18 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hoi there, I don't see any problems, except . browse down On 18. Oct 2004, at 21:19, Communications Machine wrote: Hey all, looking to upgrade a server used in a small business here, looking for opinions and advice about migrating to an AMD64 system, vs. using i386 box, also if it would not

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware? (sources?)

2004-10-18 Thread Communications Machine
Thanx for the advice, we had actually chosen a 3 Ware Escalade 8500-series S-ATA controller, but have been unable to locate a dealer for the product locally (or online) with a good price; thus the fall-back to Adaptec. Lots of eBay-ers' selling them, but no one has retail versions, only OEM

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-18 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:07:44PM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: Hey all, looking to upgrade a server used in a small business here, looking for opinions and advice about migrating to an AMD64 system, vs. using i386 box, also if it would not be just as feasible to use i386 distribution on AMD64

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-18 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:19:40PM -0400, Communications Machine wrote: Here's what we're proposing for the new hardware: AMD Athlon64 - 3200+ (Socket 754 - I know, but it's cheap) MSI K8T-FSR (VIA Chipset) 2048MB DDR400 Non-ECC RAM In my experience trying to put more than 1GB RAM in a

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-18 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Francois Tigeot wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:19:40PM -0400, Communications Machine wrote: Here's what we're proposing for the new hardware: AMD Athlon64 - 3200+ (Socket 754 - I know, but it's cheap) MSI K8T-FSR (VIA Chipset) 2048MB DDR400 Non-ECC RAM In my experience trying to put more than

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-18 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:01:21AM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: Here's what we're proposing for the new hardware: AMD Athlon64 - 3200+ (Socket 754 - I know, but it's cheap) MSI K8T-FSR (VIA Chipset) 2048MB DDR400 Non-ECC RAM In my experience trying to put more than 1GB RAM in a

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-18 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Here's what we're proposing for the new hardware: AMD Athlon64 - 3200+ (Socket 754 - I know, but it's cheap) MSI K8T-FSR (VIA Chipset) 2048MB DDR400 Non-ECC RAM In my experience trying to put more than 1GB RAM in a socket-754 mainboard is asking for trouble. This type of board