On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 at 3:46pm, Marc Saric wrote > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >> I've got a testbox with a Supermicro X7DVL motherboard and dual Xeon 5140s. >> The onboard network was *not* supported in CentOS 4.3, but is as of 4.4. >> Also, the 3w-9xxx received a significant upgrade in the 4.4 kernel vs. the >> one from 4.3. So, you *really* want to go with 4.4 on that hardware over >> 4.3. > > Significant upgrade for he 3ware 9xxx means just "now works out of the box" > or anything else (better performance, etc.)? The former -- the pre-4.4 3w-9xxx driver didn't work at all with the 9550 cards, IIRC. > Any of the stability/heat issues which where mentioned in the "Dual Opteron > or Dual Xeon?" thread from 2006-10-26? Nope. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University