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> Hi, |
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> I'd like to know if anyone has any experience with either the |
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> Tyan Thunder n3600M (S2932) or the |
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> Tyan Thunder n2000M (S3992) motherboards and, of course, gentoo amd64. |
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> The CPUs would be 2 2xxx opterons. |
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I've finally received a new S3992 based server yesterday. |
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I've been hit by 4 issues and here they are: |
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1. |
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The one thing that was clearly lacking from Tyan and ThermalTake was that |
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there are actually 2 different Heatsink sizes on the market for Socket F |
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systems. Some heatsinks at 3.5" and others at 4.1". |
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ThermalTake's Socket F heatsinks use 4.1", while the Tyan board uses 3.5". |
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In the end I got 2 Socket 940 heatsinks using the special brackets from |
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Tyan. |
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After rereading the specifications, the only line that was a clue to is |
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was "Uses the standard 3 1/2"/89mm socket connector" which is really not |
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telling much. |
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2. |
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The second issue was that when I disable the "Hide XIOAPIC PCI functions" |
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the linux kernel will only see 1 core of 1 cpu. My only clue to that being |
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the problem was a post to the Linux Kernel List from someone that had the |
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same problem but mentionned he couldn't remember what setting he used. |
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3. |
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If the fan fail led is enabled, then not connected fan are marked as |
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failed and there is no way to tell it to ignore them. The bios will also |
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give a message like "FAN5 RPM doesn't detected". |
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4: |
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lm_sensors require a special program to "switch" which set of fan and cpu |
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is being monitored. I really wish that there is a way to avoid that. I |
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like being able to parse the output of lm_sensors to hobbit (aka big |
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brother) for monitoring purposes. |
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