designing new freebsd server for amd64 arch

[David O'Brien]

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--- Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:03:35AM -0700, Tom Shafron wrote:
> > On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:19 am, David Komanek said:
> > > Now I prefer:
> > > Tyan Thunder K8WE, S2895A2NRF
...
> > 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.
> 
> I haven't experienced problems with the onboard bge
> NICs on my Tyan 2882... but now you have me nervous...
> do you have a link to people discussing the issues
> that I can check out?

s2882 != S2895A2NRF.  The two are very different and use different
Broadcom silicon.

There are also problems using Linux on this motherboard.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)