Intel Woodcrest Crash under heavy load with FC5 and MySql

[Albert Graham]

Hi Ed,

Ed K. wrote:
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> .... 'no' to all your questions, but in my experience:
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> I bought a computer with an SuperMicro OEM motherboard, the H8DCE
> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/nForce/H8DCE.cfm
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Looks nice,
> and I had nothing but the same trouble you tell about. With this 
> motherboard and a 3ware 9500S-8.
> Using the onboard SATA was not a problem - only with the 3ware.
Strange, because I also have about 40 of these boxes with that card and 
(but using Intel CPU's) and never had a problem!

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> I sent the card back to 3ware, upgraded the bios in the motherboard, 
> and updated the firmware in the
> drives - all no luck.
We'll I don't think 3ware are being to helpful right now, even though it 
really looks like scsi disk errors

>
> Head over to https://www.3ware.com/
> those guys are on top of things!


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> Then I put a Tyan S2850G2N in the server no problems!
> http://www.tyan.com/PRODUCTS/html/tomcatk8s.html
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> I question the OEM line of SuperMicro.

We'll I dealing directly with SM and my vendor and I have very 
impressed, on a number of occaisions I have had BIOS fixed within 12 
hours, and in fact, they already done two BIOS fixes on this board for 
me already one was in about 4 hours.

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> ed
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Thanks
Albert.