Tyan/Broadcom issues?

[Mark Lane]

On February 11, 2005 01:16 pm, "James Welsh" <jwelsh at digitalspy.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We're considering moving to FC3 from FreeBSD 5.3, for two of our
> Opteron-based servers.  The reason we're moving, incidentally, is because
> of an apparent incompatibility between FreeBSD 5.3 and our motherboard
> (Tyan S2882 Thunder K86) and its Broadcom integrated NICs with >4GB RAM. 
> I've been reading this list and have noticed the Tyan name being brought up
> quite often and so I was wondering whether anyone can definitively say
> whether FC3 x86_64 is stable with a system of specs similar to these:
>
> Motherboard: Tyan S2882 Thunder K86 with U320 SCSI
> CPUs: AMD Opteron 248 2.2 GHz, 1MB cache x2
> Memory: 8GB
> SCSI: Adaptec AIC-7902W dual channel
> RAID: LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 64-bit
> Network Adapters: 2x Broadcom BCM5704C 1000Mbit integrated, 1x Intel
> PRO/100 integrated

Yes it is definitely stable. We have customers running FC2 and FC3 on the Tyan 
S2882 in production environments. FC3 currently provides very good support 
for x86_64.

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