[CentOS] What do you think about this motherboard?
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Tue Jul 5 05:54:48 UTC 2005
Shawn M. Jones wrote:
> Feizhou wrote:
>
>> Shawn M. Jones wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>> All I can do is reiterate my experience with a 3ware 9500 and a
>>> motherboard with a VIA chipset. The two don't play well together. I
>>> switched to a Supermicro with an entirely Intel chipset (earlier
>>> rendition of the one it looks like you're looking at), and have had
>>> no downtime since.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shawn,
>>
>> Can you please tell us which VIA chipset? I know some from the Apollo
>> line were horrendous since they had PCI latency issues.
>
>
> Feizhou,
>
> Sorry it took me so long to get back to you guys. I've been at a
> mind-numbing government conference all week. I also had to unearth the
> old hardware to find the chipset.
Thanks for the trouble :)
>
> The southbridge chipset on the motherboard is VT8233A. I believe the
> northbridge is the KT266A chipset, but can't tell because it's covered
> by a heatsink and fan. The motherboard is an A-Bit KR7A-133 (no RAID).
I have that for my AMD box...and I have problems with capture cards.
The problem servers I have use VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
related northbridges.
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