Motherboard for 1U server?

Net Llama! netllama
Mon Aug 14 07:22:36 PDT 2006


On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 09:40 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>
>>
>> The majority of Tyan & Supermicro boards are designed for rackmount
>> servers.  I haven't been terribly impressed with Supermicro boards lately,
>> but Tyan generally does a good job.  Their website documents which
>> formfactors fit into the different sized chasis.
>
> We have been moving mainly to SuperMicro this past year., with all new
> systems being said hardware. Part of what we like about SuperMicro is
> that they make the chassis as well. We use lots of removable disks. They
> make nice 1U chassis with up to 4 hot swappable disks. I'm curious about
> your complaint with their MBs?

Its mostly a general cluenessless when it comes to creating a BIOS that 
works well with Linux (and a cluenessless about Linux in general).

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