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.