Brad Dameron wrote:
Anyone running a Quad Opteron with the Tyan 4882? Any driver issues? What about the onboard LSI scsi? Have you tried the LSI ZCR Raid add-on card?
Looking to purchase one of these. Will be installing SuSe 9.2 on it if it works.
Any help appreciated.
From experience, neither SLES 8 or SLES 9 work with zero channel raid cards for the Tyan S2880 and S2882 boards (tried both in December 2003 and December 2004). We ended up having to discard the Adaptec 2015S cards and install Intel (ironic?) SRCU42L RAID cards. They just work. ZCR sounded like a good idea, but does not seem to have good Linux support. There are other threads to that effect - check the archives.
Sounds like you are talking a serious server/workstation - after spending all of that money do not pinch pennies on your RAID adapter and distribution. A 4 processor CPU is not standard SuSE Pro 9.2 fare - though I am sure some folks have made it work. I would recomment the extra money for SLES 9 - Novell has lowered the price considerable, its affordable now. Hope this helps. - Richard