On Thursday 14 March 2002 05:08 am, you wrote: > I have a tyan too with no hardware problem. > > you can share interrupt > > remember if you want to use both, it depends on your needs > > if you want to share different lan, or you want act as a bridge, or one > ADSL other local net
Thanks. The server is replacing a quad Xeon SCO box used for a hospital. There are two networks and the hospital uses a thin-client topology, so network performance is important. The shared interrupts are compromising the networking performance. Or if those are working, the disk access is compromised. Neither is good. One solution may be to disable the onboard NIC and use a dual port NIC. If Tyan had not disabled the ability in the BIOS to allocate IRQ per slot, this would not be a problem. (Why would they do this on a server class mobo? They don't have a clue.) Tyan S2466 motherboard 4 GB ECC RAM 3COM 905 built-on-motherboard Radeon 7XXX AGP 3COM 905 PCI 32 bit Adaptec 29160 SCSI 64 bit, 66Mhz Adaptec 3410S RAID 64 bit, 66Mhz The board has 4 32 bit 33Mhz PCI slots and 2 64 bit 66Mhz slots (those for the SCSI controllers). The built-in 3Com pretends to be on "slot 8" BTW, as a warning to all, The current mobo BIOS has a bug that causes the selection of ECC RAM to crash the boot process. The OS is Mandrake 8.2-RC1 with the Enterprise kernel. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
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