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Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware for venti/fossil/cpu server
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:19:21 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
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The 2 AMD64 motherboards we have experience with are
the Tyan S2882 dual Opteron (mentioned before) and recently
an Aopen MK89-L (http://usa.aopen.com/products/mb/MK89-L.htm).
We stuck it in an Antec Aria case to see if it made a decent
desktop machine. We've not investigated it fully, e.g. it has
a Realtek 8110S 1000/100/10 controller on-board and we haven't
got round to making that work (we boot it with PXE via
that controller then switch to using an Intel 82557 card in
one of the PCI slots). Realtek were unresponsive when asked
for programming details but looking at existing *nix drivers
it doesn't look hard to fix up the existing ether8139.c.

As Nigel says, this is low end and if you want 64-bit PCI, etc.
then you have to pay a lot more.

--jim