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 1HjRLC-0005hj-Eb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 02:46:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l432ioj4028897; Thu, 3 May 2007 02:44:50 GMT Received: from melchior.nuitari.net (melchior.nuitari.net [209.222.54.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l432imcj028889 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 02:44:49 GMT Received: (qmail 31891 invoked by uid 500); 3 May 2007 02:45:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 May 2007 02:45:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 22:45:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Nuitari To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Tyan Motherboards In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 1560bd68-602e-48fb-82cf-3dfe8ec12c27 X-Archives-Hash: 97953754c7332a875589071280591fb8 > possible to do so. (I'm running kernel software RAID here, rather than > their BIOS/software solution, and the kernel solution is more flexible, > more widely tested, and more portable should the hardware I'm on fail, > all three.) I do run it on all of my other machines. Unfortunately the specific machine that is being upgraded has a 3ware hardware raid controller which got in there much more on a string of bad luck then by design. > of others had an effect, as people have reported since that MSI's > downloads are now standard format as well, no more *.exe. Anyway, I made > the right decision, as Gentoo/amd64 MSI users have seen more problems (as > reported here) than Tyan users, which have seemed pretty happy with their > purchases, from what has been reported here anyway. Thanks for that :) > One thing you may wish to research a bit is the integrated video. You > don't mention your intended usage. If your purpose is a no-X server, the > integrated PCI-only ATI es1000 should be fine. I'm going to be adding an AMI Megarac g2 remote access card to the server and I'll be hoping that there won't be any compatibility issues as with the current MSI motherboard. The 2 major motives for the upgrade is the increasing use of virtualization on that server, and the Megarac g2 RAC. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list