Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?

[John Griffin]

What worked for us (for what it's worth):
We selected MSI K8D Master-F, dual Opterons (244), 2g ECC, Adaptec's
39320a-r SCSI, and IBM Ultrastar 320 drives.
We utilized a triple redundant 600w 4u chassis (SC742) by Supermicro- even
though they're an Intel shop- it works great after we made extensions to a
power cord.
MSI's response time and inaccurate troubleshooting was a disheartening
experience (JPWR2 is not "optional" as stated in the manual or to us in
email). Honestly though, good_technical_customer_service +
motherboard_manufacturer are two things we've not ever been able to compile.

Also had to snatch a driver from Adaptec.

Our combination works with 32bit apps and we're working on a migration
strategy toward 64bit kernel and modules.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Reis" <mcr2z at cs.virginia.edu>
To: <amd64-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 8:33 AM
Subject: RE: Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?


> As long as everyone is putting in their 2c, I would give a word of caution
> about Tyan. This comes from two recent bad experiences with their
> motherboards. 1) We have >20 machines in a cluster all running dual Athlon
> MPs and they started out with 4GB of ECC ram. To make along story short,
> there was absolutely no way to make these machines stable with 4 sticks of
> memory. We had to sell back, at a lost, the extra 1GB DIMMS. 2) Bad RMA
> support. Another Tyan dual proc board, in a different system, failed
within
> the warranty period from Tyan. Trying to RMA the board was a Herculean
> effort and did not go well. We've had respectable luck our MSI Opteron
> boards K8D Master FTs.
>
> -Mark Reis
> UVa CS Department
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amd64-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:amd64-list-admin at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:13 AM
> To: amd64-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?
>
> On February 26, 2004 10:03 pm, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 February 2004 20:46, Ashley Gittins wrote:
> > > If there are good reasons why I should look at another board, or
another
> > > chipset altogether, I'd love to hear them. I'll be using Fedora for my
> > > day-to-day work (general desktop stuff, some devel, graphics) and will
> > > be dual-booting with XP purely for games.
> > >
> > > I don't expect a completely smoth ride on AMD64, but I wouldn't mind
> > > being able to start out with something proven, and sit back on the bit
> > > where the bleeding edge has just started to congeal :-)
>
> We have sold one and haven't heard any complaints but personally I would
> look
> at getting a Tyan S2875S instead. It takes the S940 Opteron 14x series or
> Athlon64 FX processors. It comes with AC97 sound that works under linux,
> GigE, SIL3114 4 Port SATA RAID (Much better than promise and linux support
> now exists). It uses an AMD chipset which is well supported. The only
> complaint we have is that you need to remove the audio connectors to fit
it
> in a 1U case.
>
>
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