Motherboard for 1U server?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:22 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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).

So far things have been ok. The main BIOS thing I deal with is related
to SATA and AHCI mode so hot swapping works. It has been more of a
Linux/Roger issue in that it is only just now getting into the kernel
and my brain. All the MBs I have use ATI graphics chips. As we do not
use these for user activity (no display) it makes no difference. The
rest are Intel chipsets with Pentium D processors.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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