On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 05:21 am, Jurriaan wrote:
> From: Song Zhao <song.zhao@nuix.com.au>
> Date: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:34:28PM -0500
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been doing some benchmarks with this board, it is terribly
> > disppointing. Has anyone had similar experiences?
>
> How many people do you guess own such hardware? Not me :-(
>
> > The hardware spec is:
> > Dual 2.8GHz Xeon, 3ware Escalade 7850 (7500-8) 12 port IDE RAID
> > controller, RAID 10, 4x 1GB DDR SDRAM Registered ECC, 2x 80GB WD HDD, 10x
> > 120GB WD HDD, ServerWorks Grand Champion LE.
> >
> > I am running RH7.3 with 2.4.20 kernel. The performance of this box is
> > about half of an almost identical box (Supermicro X5DP8-G2 mobo, E7501
> > chipset)
>
> what does
>
> cat /proc/mtrr
>
> say?
sorry I can't tell you right now, as I have just replaced the motherboard with
another Supermicro mobo, this time a E7500 chipset. As soon as I get it back
online, I'll let you know.
>
> > Also, this board can't even boot with 8x 1GB memory modules plugged in (8
> > DIMM slots in total). This is a relative new board and I can't find
> > anything relevant on the net.
>
> "can't boot" as in crashes halfway during linux or doesn't even start
> lilo?
It doesn't even start Lilo, it hangs after it checks memory, 3ware card and
network card.
>
> HTH,
> Jurriaan
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