[CentOS] What do you think about this motherboard?

[Feizhou]

Shawn M. Jones wrote:
> Feizhou wrote:
> 
>> Shawn M. Jones wrote:
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>>>>
>>> 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.
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>>
>> 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.