Quoting Sam Drinkard <sam@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Does anyone have any experience with Super-Micro brand motherboards
> // dual Xeon cpu's? Had to swap out my Tyan piece of junk and going
> back with the S-M board. I believe it has similar north/southbridge
> chips on it -- at least they are the intel MCH ICH5R and PXH plus the
> 82546GB. One area that the Tyan board was seriously lacking in was
> in the hardware monitoring department. The S-M board uses a winbond
> 83627HF chip. Another area I'm wondering about is with the SATA
> controller. Supposedly the ICH5R supports Raid 0, 1, and JBOD's, but
> does CentOS handle the sata raid without difficulty?
I have some. They work nicely and reliably. Haven't attempted to use hw
monitoring features (I guess you mean monitoring CPU temp, fan speed, and such
stuff?). The on-board RAID is fake-RAID. Pretend it is not there.
Simply use
Linux native software RAID drivers. Some of those motherboards have slot for
optional zero-channel RAID card. If you get such motherboard and buy the
optional card, that card is actually Adaptec I2O hardware RAID card, and it
works nicely.
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