From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6c32db063186c3f2b10cc5b381b68739@plan9.bell-labs.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:01:33 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: mteege@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware for venti/fossil/cpu server In-Reply-To: <88a4775604092201221495aa52@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6ebf804-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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