Shawn M. Jones wrote:
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.
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).
Far be it to correct my own post, but the northbridge is the VT8366A chipset.
which is part of the KT266A :)
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/legacy/kt266a/
lists a '552-pin BGA VT8366A North Bridge'