hi ya On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Ricky Beam wrote: > 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. ditto ... i would buy tyan motherboards since its very cost effective for its performance and very good reliability ( it's my 2nd choice mb for certain apps and sometimes 1st choice ) we buy lots of um for customers that requests certain models --- usually, if there's hardware problems, it's usually an installation problem and/or very unlikely, 1%-5% probability of bad hardware - things dont always work out of the box ( cdrom installation ) and one *-do-* need to know how to tweek it to make it work "right" - one should buy parts from reputable cpu/mb/disk distributors and not any mom-n-pop website that sells "everything" c ya alvin - 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
