Shawn M. Jones wrote: > 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. 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.