From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hjc5W-00031o-HG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 14:15:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l43EDOnL012383; Thu, 3 May 2007 14:13:24 GMT Received: from relay.sgi.com (netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com [192.48.171.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l43EDMVZ012378 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 14:13:23 GMT Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by netops-testserver-3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651A3908AE for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 07:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (conejo.engr.sgi.com [150.166.8.69]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l43EDK4S012902 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 07:13:21 -0700 Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l43EDKNp009296 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 07:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rsanders@localhost) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l43EDK20009157 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 3 May 2007 07:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 07:13:20 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Tyan Motherboards Message-ID: <20070503141320.GB10570@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org References: <20070503032436.GD10352@ifa.hawaii.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070503032436.GD10352@ifa.hawaii.edu> Organization: SGI, Mountain View, California, U.S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 6220b570-ae86-4bd1-a443-cefbe59db115 X-Archives-Hash: 20edf9b45f8281965c0b4c7088ec2707 Joshua Hoblitt, mused, then expounded: > > In the past Tyan has had _wonderful_ support and I have literally dozens > of their motherboards in production systems. I even have a Tyan board > in my home system. However, after this most recent experience I most > likely going to be investigating SuperMicro boards now they they support > Opterons. > Don't expect Supermicro's tech support to be better. In many cases the questions have to be fed to the local techs, asked by them to the mothership in Taiwan and then replied back to. And while their BMC works well with ipmi 1.8.9 or web browser, they sometimes do upgrades in the middle of board runs that eliminates some usefulness - like the web browser. Still, they're a lot better than many other vendors out there. Though Tyan is still my preferred vendor. On the original subject - my Tyan S2885 is still running strong as my office workstation, since 2006. More than I can say for the ECS ATI R690 chipset I had to upgrade to at home due to a failing system - way too easy to lock it up. Bob - -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list