Re: Hardware cvs and daily build servers run on?

From: Thor Lancelot Simon (tls_at_panix.com)
Date: 07/15/05

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    In article <smABe.26$9w3.26@news.oracle.com>,
    Chris Kantarjiev <cak+news@dimebank.com> wrote:
    >
    >I started there when putting together a dual Opteron system recently. I decided
    >I didn't need 1U, but am very happy with the MB-SM-A8DAE mobo I got from Acme
    >(which is apparently a clone of the SuperMicro H8DAE).

    Acme is a very, very large SuperMicro dealer -- large enough that they get to
    private-label some SuperMicro products. If they sell them as their own Acme
    brand, and take the warranty obligation off SM's hands, they can sell them for
    a little bit less.

    Some other Acme products (like the 8176 and 8177 that we use) are Tyan
    motherboards in Chenbro chassis. We're pretty happy with them.

    We can't use the SuperMicro boards (though there's little reason to since we're
    happy with the Tyan boards) because they use Marvell SATA controllers. Marvell
    just released source to a Linux device driver for these chips but until about
    3 weeks ago there was little chance we could get enough docs or code to write
    an open-source driver for them.

    The boards we use use the Silicon Image 3114 SATA chip. I don't know if it
    can do NCQ; our driver for it can't, anyway. Performance is still good. 

    -- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
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