Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:32:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Brian <hiryuu@envisiongames.net>
cc: Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ATHLON HELP ME ON THIS PLZ!!!!
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Well I have a pair and one is an unreleased chipset version I develop a
lot of code on.

Recall the RAID 0 report of 109MB/sec writing and 167MB/sec reading, well
that was generated on a dual athlon.  Mind the fact these are certified
boards from AMD and are reference boards.

	http://www.linux-ide.org/.athy/athlonpass.jpg

This is the authentication tag for one of the referrence boards used for
the creation of the Tyan Board.  No I can not disclose much more than
this, but the original Tyan Board that was a cadillac with all the options
is the preferred board.  The BIOS I have is the Tyan 2.06a but that one
may be gone.

So as for who makes the best board for dual athlon, AMD; however, those
are hard to come by regardless.

Oh and if you would like a tool suite to test you systems for stablity,
I will be happy to license for a fee so that you can make your customers
more confident about the product.

Regards,

Andre Hedrick
CEO/President, LAD Storage Consulting Group
Linux ATA Development
Linux Disk Certification Project

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Brian wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 January 2002 04:07 pm, Mike Harrold wrote:
> > Actually, I'm interested in this as well. The only thing stopping me
> > from buying a dual Athlon MP is the problems I keep reading about here
> > on lkml. I don't want to spend the money only to have problems.
> >
> > So, if anyone is running dual Athlon MPs *flawlessly*, I'd appreciate a
> > hardware listing (MB, Bios version, RAM type & manufacturer, etc.).
> 
> We have 8 running dual-Athlons which are basically Einux 1200s 
> (http://www.einux.com/A1200.html).  We have our first pair of MP1700-based 
> systems going in this week, so I can't say much about those yet.
> 
> We had some trouble with a couple of bad boards from Tyan's first batch or 
> so.  Also, more than 2 Kentron 256MB modules didn't work well together.  
> Those first couple weeks were rough, but we switched to 512MB modules and 
> they have been rock solid ever since.
> 
> The XP processors may or may not work, but I would have a tough time 
> justifying it to customers if we had system problems from us cheaping out 
> on unsupported configs.

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