Well I have a pair and one is an unreleased chipset version I develop a
lot of code on.
Recall the RAID 0 report of 109MB/sec writing and 167MB/sec reading, well
that was generated on a dual athlon. Mind the fact these are certified
boards from AMD and are reference boards.
http://www.linux-ide.org/.athy/athlonpass.jpg
This is the authentication tag for one of the referrence boards used for
the creation of the Tyan Board. No I can not disclose much more than
this, but the original Tyan Board that was a cadillac with all the options
is the preferred board. The BIOS I have is the Tyan 2.06a but that one
may be gone.
So as for who makes the best board for dual athlon, AMD; however, those
are hard to come by regardless.
Oh and if you would like a tool suite to test you systems for stablity,
I will be happy to license for a fee so that you can make your customers
more confident about the product.
Regards,
Andre Hedrick
CEO/President, LAD Storage Consulting Group
Linux ATA Development
Linux Disk Certification Project
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Brian wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 January 2002 04:07 pm, Mike Harrold wrote:
> > Actually, I'm interested in this as well. The only thing stopping me
> > from buying a dual Athlon MP is the problems I keep reading about here
> > on lkml. I don't want to spend the money only to have problems.
> >
> > So, if anyone is running dual Athlon MPs *flawlessly*, I'd appreciate a
> > hardware listing (MB, Bios version, RAM type & manufacturer, etc.).
>
> We have 8 running dual-Athlons which are basically Einux 1200s
> (http://www.einux.com/A1200.html). We have our first pair of MP1700-based
> systems going in this week, so I can't say much about those yet.
>
> We had some trouble with a couple of bad boards from Tyan's first batch or
> so. Also, more than 2 Kentron 256MB modules didn't work well together.
> Those first couple weeks were rough, but we switched to 512MB modules and
> they have been rock solid ever since.
>
> The XP processors may or may not work, but I would have a tough time
> justifying it to customers if we had system problems from us cheaping out
> on unsupported configs.
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