NIC is built-in GB. Haven't tried the operations you speak of. I have a 7xxx series 3ware sata controller and it installed and ran primo so once the escalade series developers get caught up in the 64bit arena I am sure those will play nice too. Once I got the driver built and loaded the system seems to humming along but I haven't tested it thoroughly. -----Original Message----- From: Johan Nielsen [mailto:yep@osterbo-net.dk] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:47 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] POLL: Do you have a positive impression on the 6 4-bit platform ... plz drop a note on the hardware you use Tirsdag den 21. september 2004 21:47 skrev Kevin.Wilson@comtrol.com:

SuSE 9.1 Professional

AMD Opteron 240 1.4GHz 64-bit Retail CPUs Tyan Tiger K8W S2875ANRF Dual Opteron Server Board PC2700 333MHz DDR ECC RAM - (4GB Total) Maxtor 6Y200M0 200GB 7200RPM 8MB SERIAL ATA HDs - (4) ATI Radeon 9200SE 64MB DDR 8x AGP w/ TV-Out Tagan TG480-U01 480w pwr supply. Topower TP134SAB Hot-swap SATA module. 3ware 9500S-8 Escalade SATA Controller.

What Networkinterface (NIC) do you use or is it a built-in. Are you able to control the speed of the NIC between 10 and 100 Mbit and turn full dublex on/off with say ethtool ??

The only hassle I had was with the 3ware controller and the obvious problems suse has with its setup program (update disk portion) for loading modules on SMP systems at installation time. This is partly 3ware's fault because they could not get their module in the kernel source tree in time for the 9.1 release.

Well that also goes for single/32 bit systems :-/ But I've read a lot of very positive notes on the 3ware controllers

The sata raid controller could not be used for a fresh install. I had to use an IDE disk to hold the OS then add the newly compiled module manually.

One can get to new/fresh equipment (ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe) But would be nice with a guide in the help portal to get out of that trap (on the old IDE drive). Kind of SAD that we have to pay the SuSE-UPDATE-TAX to achieve that ;-)

The kernel-syms package had to be loaded for the 3ware module code to compile properly. The only thing I have left is to tear everything down and install clean to test if the 3ware module can handle a kernel update from YaST without breaking.

Other than what's mentioned above I have had *no* problems but the machine is not in a production environment yet and isn't doing anything other than sitting there spinning its wheels. The machine will end up being a productin database server running postgresql, mysql and maxdb so once

No that's probably gonna be an experience of it's own ;-) those

are on and I start running some tests I should learn more.

-----Original Message----- From: Johan Nielsen [mailto:yep@osterbo-net.dk] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:25 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] POLL: Do you have a positive impression on the 64-bit platform ... plz drop a note on the hardware you use

Would be nice to have around for all considering buying stuff.

Single / dual / X-cpu systems Mainboard RAM Chipset All the info you'd like to add

Plz let me/others know how you dealt with problems if you had any

(And yes ... I'll probably buy a AMD64/Opteron myself in the near future)

Johan

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