[4595] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Tyan motherboard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher B. Smith)
Sat Aug 22 19:31:12 1998
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:53:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher B. Smith" <cbsmith@envise.com>
To: Cristian Mateescu <cristim@fx.ro>
cc: linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, redhat-list@redhat.com,
linux-l@mana.landofhaze.com
In-Reply-To: <35DE9A06.6F0E1129@fx.ro>
On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Cristian Mateescu wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm preparing to build a Linux SMP machine and I was considering the
> Tyan S1836DLUAN Thunder 100 board. It is based on the Intel BX chipset
> and it has an Adaptec AIC-7895 dual channel FastWide SCSI on board as
> well as Creative Vibra 16XV sound and Intel FastEthernet.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this board under SMP
> Linux. What is the most stable kernel to use with this board? Is there
> any other board you would recomand?
>
> I'm planning to run a SCSI RAID on this machine. Which drives do you
> recomand for best performance?
>
> Thanks for any input on the above!
There is a nasty bug in this board with regards to interrupts as I recall.
I can't remember the exact details, but a friend of mine actually has one,
and it's working OK for him, except he can't put is Matrox G100 in the
AGP slot.
--Chris
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
