On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Bernd Schubert wrote: >> Mobo was a Tyan Thunder K8W. (S2885) > >personally I'm very disappointed about Tyan, well I only know their >opteron mainboards, but thats already sufficient to never buy their >mainboards again. You're doing yurself a huge disservice based on very little experience. Using one or two of a manufacturer's MBs is not sufficient grounds to blacklist them. Tyan sells a lot of these boards. If there were serious stability problems with them, tyan wouldn't be shipping them. Tyan makes very good hardware. I don't know what your problems are, but I've never had any such problems. I've used Tyan hardware for a decade. Yes, they've made a few mistakes over the years -- bad SIMM slots on the earily tomcat boards, using a VIA chipset for the tiger 133... >Server B (failover): S2880, as soon as a cable is plugged in into one of >the onboard broadcom NICs, the system crashes. Broadcom driver doesn't >need to be loaded, system may already crash during the pre-boot >initialisation or later on during the kernel boot-procedure. I've seen a few systems do this. It was due to bad memory and bad memory configuration (BIOS). Those systems (i7501's) have been running fine (over a year now) since replacing the RAM with Tyan "ok'ed" memory and disabling "spread spectrum" in the chipset. --Ricky - 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
