Hi Drew,
I just recently built an Athlon system using the new SOYO Dragon+ MB. So
far so good. Works excellent with very good performance. I'm running
2.4.16-xfs with the preempt patches and suffer no ill as a result. I
originally started with Mandrake 8.1 then upgraded to 2.4.14 and later
to 2.4.16 - It's been working surprisingly well considering the newness
of the hardware.
System Specs:
SOYO Dragon+ MB
Athlon XP1800+
2x256MB Samsung PC2100 DDR
2x40GB IBM GXP60 Deskstar configured with software raid0
GeForce 3 Ti200
Onboard Via ethernet, CM8738 sound both are enabled
Additional EEPRO100
All hardware is supported under linux.
Using it as my devel workstation/game machine at home and performance is
excellent. So far, stability is fine with no lockups, freezes, oopses
etc... Been running for approx. 3 weeks. Hope that helps,
-Walt
Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell wrote:
Fellow XFS users:
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My company has been working with XFS-Linux on Intel systems for some
time
and has had some difficulties getting a stable Linux w/XFS release to
work
on some of our older K6-2 systems. Instead of butting our heads against
a
case of potentially suspect hardware, we're looking to upgrade to a
group
of Athlon-based systems. In this, I have a few questions:
1. What can those of you running Linux w/XFS recommend for motherboards
to
go with an Athlon processor?
(We might as well get hardware we know works by experience.)
2. Are they any special changes to your kernels used to work correctly
with
an Athlon-based system?
Our initial attempts at doing an Athlon + Linux + XFS solution haven't
worked.
We've tried the following methods:
2.4.14 source from kernel.org, patched to XFS 1.0.2, compiled using
gcc
2.4.14 source from kernel.org, patched to XFS 1.0.2, compiled using
kgcc
Pre-patched XFS 1.0.2 kernel source from SGI, compiled using kgcc
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
--Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell [cheetah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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