From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Moore Subject: Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:15:55 -0800 Message-ID: <42182B1B.6070404@nsr500.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I've been running an S2885 since Feb 1. After flashing to 2.02b and replacing a faulty SATA cable, zero problems. System runs constantly as a NAS load generator client except for shutdowns needed to test different disks or memory configs. I'll be getting 3 more next month, racked using: http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=94326 http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=94550 Also a good EPS12V power supply does wonders. Cheers. Ricky Beam wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Bernd Schubert wrote: > >>>Mobo was a Tyan Thunder K8W. (S2885) >> >>personally I'm very disappointed about Tyan, well I only know their >>opteron mainboards, but thats already sufficient to never buy their >>mainboards again. > > > You're doing yurself a huge disservice based on very little experience. > Using one or two of a manufacturer's MBs is not sufficient grounds to > blacklist them. Tyan sells a lot of these boards. If there were serious > stability problems with them, tyan wouldn't be shipping them. > > Tyan makes very good hardware. I don't know what your problems are, > but I've never had any such problems. I've used Tyan hardware for > a decade. Yes, they've made a few mistakes over the years -- bad > SIMM slots on the earily tomcat boards, using a VIA chipset for the > tiger 133... > > >>Server B (failover): S2880, as soon as a cable is plugged in into one of >>the onboard broadcom NICs, the system crashes. Broadcom driver doesn't >>need to be loaded, system may already crash during the pre-boot >>initialisation or later on during the kernel boot-procedure. > > > I've seen a few systems do this. It was due to bad memory and bad memory > configuration (BIOS). Those systems (i7501's) have been running fine > (over a year now) since replacing the RAM with Tyan "ok'ed" memory and > disabling "spread spectrum" in the chipset. > > --Ricky > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > --