On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Frederic Soulier wrote: > > Yes, this also applies to nForce3 based Athlon64 systems. Disks I > > Were the disks using SATA?
Nope. > > tested so far flied at around 57 MB/sec, i.e. faster than anything I > > used so far. Not only the disks were fast, the rest of the platform was > > obviously very fast too. ;-) > > What Opteron proc did you use? I had a nice Opteron @ 1.8 Ghz and an Athlon64 at greater speed. > > You can try yourself, Warly should have stopped generating broken > > hdlists for now. i.e. fully rsync'ed my tree from Friday. > > I'm thinking of getting such a system in the next 2-3 months :) I just > wanted to ensure I would'nt get stuck with not very well supported *yet* > hardware. It is well supported. Just that I "forgot" to add my nforce3 patch to standard ia32 kernel. We were frozen, you know. ;-) > > Note to ASUS SK8N users: they must update their BIOS to something >= > > 1002 first. > > I believe a bios version 1003_03 is available since 19/9/2003 > (http://www.amdzone.com/#1). Yes but I for sure know that 1002 works, I have not tried 1003_03 yet.
