Evan Bursey wrote:
Hi All,
I've just started caring for a dual Opteron machine. It has a 3Ware 9500S-12 RAID controller, a Tyan S2882G3NR motherboard, 10 IBM 400GB disk drives, and a 650 watt power supply.
6x200GB IDE, 3ware 7056-8 + 2x18GB SCSI on a Tyan S2881 motherboard, 2GB RAM + two 242 Opterons. 350 Watt EPS12V redundant power supply.
What do you think?
Power.
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of hardware on x86_64 kernels?
Mine is similar but then that was with year old hardware.
Does the 3w_9xxx driver work well on a x86_64 machine?
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what capacity power supply I should have?
Just the capacity of the power supply is not enough to go on. Every power supply will also list how much current they can supply at different voltages (5V, 12V, 3.3V etc)
Your power supply also needs to be one of those EPS12V versions which comes with a 8-pin 12V power connector. So you should get a power supply that can supply more than 30A at 12V (not sure how much current you need for the cpus...been a while so you're looking for something that at least does 40A? on 12V). That is how I managed a dual Opteron + 2 SCSI and a 3ware 7056-8 + 6 IDE disks on a 350 watt EPS12V power supply.