"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]
I can almost gaurantee you the problem is not with the Athlon/XFS
combination. I have 7 systems here running on Athlon/Duron
processors for close to 6 months now with no problems. I also
have 2 at home. You need to do some better checking into what is
really causing your oops.
--
Russel H. Ingram
Unix Systems Administrator
Institute for Scientific Computation
University of Wyoming/Math Dept.
Phone: (307)766-6546
E-Mail: ringram@xxxxxxxx
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