Supermicro H8DAR-8 motherboard

[Guy Helmer]

Martin Nilsson wrote:

> Guy Helmer wrote:
>
>> Has anyone on the list tried the new Supermicro H8DAR-8 or related 
>> motherboards for Opterons?  If so, any issues?
>
>
> I have a H8DAE running in a test-box before we start selling them.
>
> So far I have ony found one problem:
> It is impossible to boot FreeBSD/i386 with the 1U IPMI card, the 
> kernel panics when loading the keyboard driver. This does not happen 
> with FreeBSD/amd64. I haven't tested how well the IPMI card works in 
> FreeBSD, there may be problems with the bge driver.
>
> Other than that I really like the board. If you have any more 
> questions I'll be happy to answer them.
>
We received the H8DAR-8 unit a little over a week ago with dual Opteron 
275s and it has been running well since.  I didn't have any problem 
installing FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, and I ran "make -j12 buildworld" 
continuously on it over a weekend.  It finally crashed on an sbfree 
call, but I'd chalk that up to BETA1.  It's been solid under a lighter 
load since.  I like the board and I'm glad Supermicro was able to cram 
it into a 1U case :-)

Guy

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Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Principal System Architect
Palisade Systems, Inc.