Been running rock solid servers on Centos 3 and 4 for years but equipment is starting to die so it is time.
I was thinking along the lines of an Intel Q6600 on an Asus P5K-VM mobo with the new G33 chipset utilizing SATA. Is anyone having success with this board or any of the G33 chipsets where I am not going to run into all kinds of install problems?
I see these other threads of install problems with the new chipsets so are a bit leary of making the purchase without hearing of some success stories.
Any recommendations? thx
-- Mike
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Michael Rock wrote:
Been running rock solid servers on Centos 3 and 4 for years but equipment is starting to die so it is time.
I was thinking along the lines of an Intel Q6600 on an Asus P5K-VM mobo with the new G33 chipset utilizing SATA. Is anyone having success with this board or any of the G33 chipsets where I am not going to run into all kinds of install problems?
that sounds more like a desktop system, not really what I'd consider server grade. no ECC support, no redundant power supplies, etc etc.
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Michael Rock wrote:
Been running rock solid servers on Centos 3 and 4 for years but equipment is starting to die so it is time.
I was thinking along the lines of an Intel Q6600 on an Asus P5K-VM mobo with the new G33 chipset utilizing SATA. Is anyone having success with this board or any of the G33 chipsets where I am not going to run into all kinds of install problems?
I just recently installed a G33 based board with centos-5 (x86_64). If the board has an ich9r the sata part it easy (use ahci in bios). My install hanged unless I passed acpi=off or pci=nommconf (the latter the real fix).
After install I had to build my own e1000 from the intel page to get the onboard GigE to work and pci=nommconf is still needed (but does not cause any negative side effects that I know of).
All this for an Intel DG33TL board.
Good luck, Peter
On 10/8/07, Peter Kjellstrom cap@nsc.liu.se wrote:
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Michael Rock wrote:
Been running rock solid servers on Centos 3 and 4 for years but equipment is starting to die so it is time.
I was thinking along the lines of an Intel Q6600 on an Asus P5K-VM mobo with the new G33 chipset utilizing SATA. Is anyone having success with this board or any of the G33 chipsets where I am not going to run into all kinds of install problems?
I just recently installed a G33 based board with centos-5 (x86_64). If the board has an ich9r the sata part it easy (use ahci in bios). My install hanged unless I passed acpi=off or pci=nommconf (the latter the real fix).
After install I had to build my own e1000 from the intel page to get the onboard GigE to work and pci=nommconf is still needed (but does not cause any negative side effects that I know of).
All this for an Intel DG33TL board.
Good luck, Peter
Some discussions are found on the CentOS forums:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9585&forum=39...
and
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9667&forum=39...
including Peter's notes. :-)
Akemi
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