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. 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). Hope this helps, Shawn M. Jones