ASUS A8N-SLI Premium supported?
I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, Athlon dual core 4800+ with 4GB ram + 4 SATA2 drives I need to setup as a server (basically postgres + apache/lighttpd). Ideally the 4 drives would be RAID (right now anything with redundancy would be acceptable). I've installed FreeBSD on it but it doesn't support the full 4GB ram, Ubuntu64 supports the ram (tested using the LiveCD), but fails when attempting to format the drives using any raid mode at all and fails to boot if installed in non-raid mode on one of the drives. Has anyone successfully installed Suse on the same setup? If so, does the SMP kernel take full advantage of the dual core? (Note that I don't care if sound or any other non-cli related h/w doesn't work, I just want a basic, reliable server that I can administer remotely). Thanks Robert
Robert Leftwich wrote:
I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, Athlon dual core 4800+ with 4GB ram + 4 SATA2 drives I need to setup as a server (basically postgres + apache/lighttpd). Ideally the 4 drives would be RAID (right now anything with redundancy would be acceptable). I've installed FreeBSD on it but it doesn't support the full 4GB ram, Ubuntu64 supports the ram (tested using the LiveCD), but fails when attempting to format the drives using any raid mode at all and fails to boot if installed in non-raid mode on one of the drives.
Has anyone successfully installed Suse on the same setup? If so, does the SMP kernel take full advantage of the dual core?
(Note that I don't care if sound or any other non-cli related h/w doesn't work, I just want a basic, reliable server that I can administer remotely).
Thanks
Robert
I have installed SUSE 10.0 on an ASUS/Nvidia nForce 4 A8N-SLI (it's not the premium), ASUS/Nvidia 7800GTX, 2GB RAM, 150GB SATA and everything works great. I am only running an Athalon 4000+, but it is my understanding that it will run a dual core just fine with the SMP kernel (make sure you have current BIOS). My only issue is with a PCI Netgear Wireless Ethernet card which doesn't have good driver support. So, I would say you should be good. Darren
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:09:10 +1100
Robert Leftwich
I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, Athlon dual core 4800+ with 4GB ram + 4 SATA2 drives I need to setup as a server (basically postgres + apache/lighttpd). Ideally the 4 drives would be RAID (right now anything with redundancy would be acceptable).
I've installed 10.0 on a similar system, a MSI K8N SLI Platinium, 4 GB RAM (some 3.5 GB recognized by the updated (not recently) BIOS), AMD X2 4600+, two SATA drives in SuSE software raid (lots of raid opportunities on the mobo itself but so far I've used none - I should I guess, but some say that the Nvdia raid is not that good), one IDE from which the system boots, GeForce 6600 video, Creative on-board 24 bit sound. Two ethernet ports. Until a recent YaST online update, there was a problem with the system recognizing the on-board network adapters in a proper manner. But now it's OK. So far, I've never been able to make the sound work with the connected 5.1 speakers. Only one speaker works, plus the bass speaker. Not that I spend a lot of time try to make it work, mind you. I generally don't like to try to fix the system but from time to time I get one of those crazes when I really want to ditch into a problem and solve it. I much prefer doing what I have/want to do instead of fixing things. In that respect I'm satisfied. The system runs X86_64 smp and it's fast all right. I could not configure SuSE 10.0 to have a 1600x1200 resolution on the 21.3" TFT. Previous install, SuSE 9.3, had no problem with this. Also, the fonts are skinny and not as nice as on 9.3. I'd like to fix that one of these days, but that does not prevent me from working. I run Apache locally for fun and experiments, set up via the YaST setup, and there are no problems so far. All in all, it's all right but since I come from a background where I used to run Linux systems I built myself (at home and at work) I tend to think that I'd get better quality with an homebrewed system... If I had the time to build a 32/64-bit dual libs version of it. Cheers.
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Darren R. Davis
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lanas
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Robert Leftwich