Mark Hahn wrote:
I have had nightmare experiences in the past with "server-class"
motherboards that barfed under SMP Linux.
SMP-specific barfage sounds very strange. might this have been in
the dark ages with dual-intel boards that had bad apic buses? or
athlon-mp's? things are very different now. I don't believe there's
much of anything SMP-oriented that the board vendor needs to do...
I've had very good luck with SuperMicro for a while now. My preferred
I tend to Tyan for supra-desktop machines, though expect most SuperMicro
and MSI would also do OK.
Tyan or SuperMicro, depending on whether I'm going Opteron (preferred)
or Xeon.
dual core nodes use the H8DAR-T motherboard. The SATA chipset isn't
supported, but a 2 port 3ware fixes that right up (and is rock-solid to
well, there is a sata_mv driver; I think I've seen positive reports:
http://linux-ata.org/sata-status.html#marvell
We've seen spotty Linux support of Via chipset SATA controllers, but
most others are well supported, at least in our experience.
gerry
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