Does anyone have any experience with Super-Micro brand motherboards // dual Xeon cpu's? Had to swap out my Tyan piece of junk and going back with the S-M board. I believe it has similar north/southbridge chips on it -- at least they are the intel MCH ICH5R and PXH plus the 82546GB. One area that the Tyan board was seriously lacking in was in the hardware monitoring department. The S-M board uses a winbond 83627HF chip. Another area I'm wondering about is with the SATA controller. Supposedly the ICH5R supports Raid 0, 1, and JBOD's, but does CentOS handle the sata raid without difficulty?
Tnx..
Often had issues with S-M boards, they are tuned to get the best benchmark results which in my experience made them less reliable. Asus boards go a similar route to..
My firm favourite, through experience alone, is MSI..
P.
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with Super-Micro brand motherboards // dual Xeon cpu's? Had to swap out my Tyan piece of junk and going back with the S-M board. I believe it has similar north/southbridge chips on it -- at least they are the intel MCH ICH5R and PXH plus the 82546GB. One area that the Tyan board was seriously lacking in was in the hardware monitoring department. The S-M board uses a winbond 83627HF chip. Another area I'm wondering about is with the SATA controller. Supposedly the ICH5R supports Raid 0, 1, and JBOD's, but does CentOS handle the sata raid without difficulty?
Tnx..
We run alot of supermicro boards (>5 types >300 boards) and they are in my experience very nice and reliable. Specifically I have a few (~100) X6DHxx boards that have ICH5, PXH and dual Xeons, rock solid.
/Peter
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 17.07, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with Super-Micro brand motherboards // dual Xeon cpu's? Had to swap out my Tyan piece of junk and going back with the S-M board. I believe it has similar north/southbridge chips on it -- at least they are the intel MCH ICH5R and PXH plus the 82546GB. One area that the Tyan board was seriously lacking in was in the hardware monitoring department. The S-M board uses a winbond 83627HF chip. Another area I'm wondering about is with the SATA controller. Supposedly the ICH5R supports Raid 0, 1, and JBOD's, but does CentOS handle the sata raid without difficulty?
Tnx..
Quoting Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net:
Does anyone have any experience with Super-Micro brand motherboards // dual Xeon cpu's? Had to swap out my Tyan piece of junk and going back with the S-M board. I believe it has similar north/southbridge chips on it -- at least they are the intel MCH ICH5R and PXH plus the 82546GB. One area that the Tyan board was seriously lacking in was in the hardware monitoring department. The S-M board uses a winbond 83627HF chip. Another area I'm wondering about is with the SATA controller. Supposedly the ICH5R supports Raid 0, 1, and JBOD's, but does CentOS handle the sata raid without difficulty?
I have some. They work nicely and reliably. Haven't attempted to use hw monitoring features (I guess you mean monitoring CPU temp, fan speed, and such stuff?). The on-board RAID is fake-RAID. Pretend it is not there. Simply use Linux native software RAID drivers. Some of those motherboards have slot for optional zero-channel RAID card. If you get such motherboard and buy the optional card, that card is actually Adaptec I2O hardware RAID card, and it works nicely.
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