[SLE] SuSE 9.2 Motherboard Upgrade

From: L. Mark Stone (lmstone_at_rnome.com)
Date: 04/01/05

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    Good Afternoon,

    I'm looking at upgrading one of our workstations, which currently has an
    AMD Athlon 1200 CPU on an Asus A7V133 motherboard with 1GB RAM.

    This workstation runs VMware Workstation, with a few VMs running most
    times, and also does a lot of disk-intensive work in its role as a
    Samba file server. I'm looking at not the latest and greatest upgrade,
    but something that will have enough horsepower to take advantage of the
    4-Disk RAID5 array of Seagate 36GB 10K Barracuda SCSI drives attached
    to a DPT PM2865U3 RAID controller.

    The RAID controller is 64-bit, but now it is sitting in a 32-bit PCI
    slot (which is OK, it's backwards compatible). So, my first screen was
    to look at boards with 64-bit PCI slots. There aren't too many that
    have a standard ATX footprint. (I'd like to keep the existing case,
    which has bunch of add-ons to make things quiet.)

    What seems to fit the bill is the following:

    Motherboard: Tyan Tiger S2466N
    CPUs: Dual Athlon MP 2800+ "Barton"
    Memory: 2 x 512MB Crucial DDR PC2100 CL=2.5 ECC Registered

    The above five items would fit just fine into the existing case, and
    would cost about $800 US. The mobo is listed in SuSE's Hardware
    Database with "Full" support, so I don't think I'll have any issues
    there. I expect I could get away with no reinstall, too.

    What I am curious about is if anyone has had experience with this board?
    Any other comments regarding this proposed kit, and not relevant to
    April Fool's day, please :-) would also be appreciated.

    Best regards,
    Mark 

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