[CentOS] Tyan 2895 in production?

[Chris Mauritz]

Peter Arremann wrote:
> On Sunday 22 January 2006 20:24, Chris Mauritz wrote:
>   
>> I stand to "inherit" some of these motherboards from another project.
>> They seem like a nice dual socket 940 board that also supports dual core
>> opterons, but I don't have any personal experience with them.  Anyone
>> using them in production w/CentOS 4.2?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>     
> So far no issue with mine - they all work as described. The only issue I had 
> was that the GigE performance was much lower than with an Intel PCI-X 
> card ... There are reports that newer drivers fixed that issue but I haven't 
> tried that since I don't like to mess with running systems.
>   

My initial snooping confirms an issue with gigE unless you upgrade to 
bleeding edge drivers which seem to be scheduled for release in 2.6.16.  
I'm planning to use them as a workhorse with "multilane" 3ware cards and 
external tanks of lots of 500gig SATA drives.

Cheers,