designing new freebsd server for amd64 arch

Tue Apr 19 06:38:06 PDT 2005

On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:19 am, David Komanek said:
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> Now I prefer:
> Tyan Thunder K8WE, S2895A2NRF
> 2x AMD Opteron 250 Box
> Adaptec 2130SLP
> 4x Hitachi 3.5" 73.4 GB (SCSI Ultra 320),10 000 rpm
> HP DLT 40/80
> 2x Gb LAN - I plan use the on-board ones
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I dont recommend an nForce chipset, specially one this new. Also, prepare
for problems with the onboard bge nic card. People are experiencing
crashes with it under load, and no one has solved the problem yet.