Centos 4 on Tyan S2895 with sata

[gavin at openfusion.com.au (Gavin Carr)]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:59:38PM -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> <blush>
> 
> They're all running windows. 
> 
> </blush>

:-)

> We were using them with Cinelerra + Linux and the editors began to rebel 
> and wanted some Adobe tools that only ran on Windows and OSX.  So I 
> caved.  8-)  I find these boxes a lot more responsive than our dual 
> 2.5ghz G5's.  I don't have any "unix tasks" that need that kind of 
> horsepower at the moment, though I'm probably going to deploy a rack of 
> dual dual-core opteron boxes (using a different motherboard) running 
> Centos when our web content launches in China.
> 
> I've got some spares around so I'll see if I can get 4.3 on one tomorrow 
> and replicate your problem. 
> 
> Are you using the RAID utility in the bios for the nvdia controller or 
> are you just treating them as plain ol' disks?  What disks are you using?

No raid, just plain 'old disks. The disks are Seagate Barracuda 7200s, 
250G.

Thanks much,
Gavin