Multiple that answer by two ;->
You need to be more specific in your description of the failure mode.
On 06-Dec-2001 Jesse Hall wrote:
> What do you mean by "haven't worked"?
>
> I've been using a Tyan Thunder K7 with dual Athlon MPs with XFS (tracking
> CVS) for a few months with great reliability and stability.
>
> HTH,
> Jesse
>
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell wrote:
>> Fellow XFS users:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ---
>> 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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John M. Trostel
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