Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:58:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Tyan s2466 stability |
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, SCoTT SMeDLeY wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm considering investing in a dual-AMD system using Tyan's s2466 > motherboard. I'm interested in hearing how others have found the > stability of this board using recent 2.4.x kernels. > > I've scanned the archives & there doesn't appear to be any reports > on problems with this board, so I guess I'm hoping to hear some > positive reports ... > > I'm also interested in hearing reports about how the board performs > with with non-ECC (non-registered) RAM as the board has been > documented to work with such an arrangement. I'm happy to fork > out for ECC RAM, but is it worth it? > > Please reply to: ss@aao.gov.au >
We got one here about two weeks ago. It had 2 AMD processors plus 2 'sticks' of RAM (Don't know how much). It was originally tested on an IDE drive booting Windows/2000. It worked, but a CPU had to be removed because W$ trashes drives when using two CPUs.
I got to play with it for an hour. I put one of my BusLogic SCSI controllers in one of the 33MHz slots and booted Linux off an existing SCSI drive. It did not run long before crashing (I booted a SMP kernel). Again, I booted it with only one CPU and it did not crash.
I don't know if it's an AMD problem or a Motherboard problem. Perhaps AMD processors don't work well in SMP, I've always used Intel with success.
Nevertheless, I was entirely unimpressed with this "MPX" board. It didn't have built-in SCSI like older Tyan boards that I currently use and it didn't work very well. My AGP graphics card (G-Force) didn't work either (in graphics) although I'm told that 'newer' ones do.
It is also kinda expensive (over US$200).
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Windows-2000/Professional isn't.
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