On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Tim Moore wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: > > > > Anyone using Tyan Thunder K8W motherboards??? > > > > I now know, there is a K8S (server?) version of that mobo, but at the time > > it was all orderd, I wasn't aware of it - my thoughts are there there is > > some sort of PCI/PCI-X problem with either the motherboard or the chipset, > > and in all probability the K8S mobo will have the same chipsset and same > > problems anyway... > > I'm using a K8W at work as a driver client for NAS testing. Onboard > Broadcom GigE, Linksys Marvell GigE, 2xWD1200JD + 2xMaxtor Maxline Plus II > as RAID-0 and RAID-5 using the Sil_3114, 2.4.29, raidtools 1.0. 2+2x1GB > PC-2700 in first and third slots for each CPU. All PCI-X/HT configs set to > Auto in BIOS and Jumpers, 2.02b BIOS. No issues except for a bad SATA cable. > > Striping yields ~90MB/s, RAID-5 about 65r, 55w on 8GB Bonnie++ runs, 2GB dd > reads on raw devices yields ~55MB/s I've not had any issues with the on-board 3114 controller. It's not blindingly fast, but it's at the end of 2 PCI bridges and on a 33MHz 32-bit bus, but it's fine. I've had over 270MB/sec reads out of an 8-way RAID-0 array. (300Mb/sec writes!) although I want raid-6 on all partitions, that drops down to ~130MB/sec read. The problems happen when I plug-in a PCI SATA card (3112 chipset based). I've tried 2 different types of cards and while one is better than the other (causes less or no lock-ups) it's still not perfect. I'm going to try a 4-port card this week. It's solid with only one PCI card in. Assitionally, if I plug a card into PCI slots 3 or 4, then the bios locks up at boot time (Checking NVRAM ... ) Hm. According to the manual, your memory configuration isn't supported - you should be using slots 1 & 2 for each processor to get 128-bit access... I only have 2 x 512MB PC2700 modules in slots 1 & 2 of CPU0. If this box was just going to be a fileserver (NAS sort of thing) then I'd have gone with a single processor, but it's also going to be running some huge CVS and MySQL application (home built version control system) and they specified dual-processors. (The existing setup runs on a dual Xeon PII/700 Dull box which takes up too much rack space and doesn't have enough disks) Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
