On Wednesday, June 30, 1999 10:36 AM, Jason Sogolow
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> Finally the oppurtunity has arisen (I think)for me to build an smp
machine.
> My pc shop has on clearance the Tyan Thunder 2 atx, S1696DLUA.
> What do you have to say about this board? Are there any nasty issues with
> it?
I've included some messages from the past few months about this board
below.
Unfotunately, LhD doesn't have any ratings for it yet, but if you do get
it, you can be the first one (at
<http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?89>). Actually, it would
be great if some of the replies from current owners went there too, so
these "what does everyone think of hardware component X" questions can be
answered quicker, easier and more precisely.
A local shop was selling them for $199.00 a few months back, so they're
probably an even better deal now.
Eugene Kuznetsov
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From: Louis Fung [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 6:32 PM
To: Tim Parker
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tyan Thunder 2
>No modification on the Celerons. The PC100 slockets are dual speed/dual
>boot like the MicroStar 6905 v1.1's. Got them as I saw several NT
>servers
>up and running with them on and watched one boot up to check it was all
>OK
>- and they were half the price of one MSI board for a pair, so thought
>i'd
>see how they went and could report on them either way back to relevent
>groups. Had a quick look at the MTRR related docs and i'll build a boot
>kernel tonight, however the bogomips is down even when I put in a single
>300A Celeron which I thought was bizarre... more fun and games later
>
>If anyone on the list has put a distribution on this m/b i'd love to
>hear
>any reports, problems or distribution type specifics.
I got exact same board you have Tyan S1696DLUA Thunder 2, running BIOS
version 2.00 (not 2.00R), 2 Pentium II 300mhz CPUs with 128MB RAM, 3
SCSI-UW
4.3 HD, SCSI CD and CD-Writer, SCSI Tape Drive (all on Channel A all the
time), Channel B for externel use on Scanner and CD-Writer Externel (not
plug in all the time).
I put 3 different distributions on the system before including Redhat 5.2 &
6.0, OpenLinux 2.2, and SuSE 6.1. they all running fine with SMP enable
with
RAID-5. Kernel tried starting 2.2.1, now the system running RedHat 6.0 with
Kernel 2.2.6.
I didn't any SCSI problems beside sometime the device st0 (tape drive)
cannot be mount correctly under different distributions.
I even tried with IDE HD, 1st one is a 2.0G IDE, 2nd one is a 8.4G UDMA.
both working fine.
I tried with Celeron CPU (no modify), I have 2 Celeron 300A, put them in,
but the motherboard doesn't recongise them, since they are not SMP ready.
even I put 1 Celeron 300A, the system cannot run correctly, I bet the I
need
the BIOS version 2.02 to make it work.
I had a lot of trouble with the motherboard at the beginning when I bought
it like 1 year ago. after BIOS upgrade couple times and download a lot of
update drivers, it run very smooth right now can dual boot with NT and
Linux.
hope this help you,
Good Luck,
Louis
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From: Terry Shull [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 11:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernals 2.2.0 through 2.2.1-ac3
On reboot system hangs at disabling symmetric IO Mode... ...done
I hope I haven't gone over board giving the following information
Tyan S1696DLU Thunder 2 ATX Mother Board
PII 333 processors, 256MB SDRAM
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linux-kernel
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:17:20 +0800
Subject: Ouch! Now Printer goes haywire!
Hi folks:
I used to run some dual PPro boxes and they'd served me well.
Now I decide to "upgrade" to a pair of PII333's on a Tyan Thunder II
(S1696, the monster-dual-CPU-with-sound-and-with-SCSI board). This
move has been nothing but trouble since. First, the dual on-board UW
SCSI refused to work. [I am now using my original AHA-2940 adapter.]
Then after I disabled it, I cannot install from CD-ROM-- every time it
hangs when the RH 5.1 installer reaches the SCSI-scanning stage. NOW
I get random garbage spewed to the printer some time after each reboot
of the machine. I realise that this may just be a toasted board, but
can someone tell me if there is something that I can try other than a
BIOS update, which I already did?
Details of box: Dual PII/333, 256MB of ECC SDRAM DIMM's, RHL
4.2, kernel version 2.2.1 (the problem does not seem to happen with
kerne; 2.1.129, the reason why I posted to the kernel list); AHA2940
with two 4G UW-SCSI drives, a plextor CD-ROM, a panasonic CD-R, and a
640MB SCSI MO drive. I am also using a logitech trackball, but not
the PS/2 kind. Printing from another machine, with the same cables,
seem to do fine.
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