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Hi, |
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Not with those specific boards but I have 16 x S2927s which are very |
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similar to the S2932. |
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I'm currently having major support issues with Tyan while attempting to |
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integrate the M3292 IPMI cards. Basically Tyan claimed that this |
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combination would work on the motherboard's spec. sheet but hadn't even |
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posted the necessary firmware for the M3292 to make this work. I've had |
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reports from various different techs at Tyan that this combination |
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should work, that the motherboard may need to be recalled, or that it's |
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a problem with the M3292 for S2927 firmware. This is after repeatedly |
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flashing the BIOS, the NVidia MCPs firmware, and the M3292s firmware |
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multiple times. Now we're stuck on them claim it's working in the lab |
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but my card will only respond via the OpemIPMI interface. Over the lan |
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I can see it sending out gratuitous arp messages but it won't respond to |
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arp resolution and it ignores all traffic if I publish an arp entry for |
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the card. Supposedly the tech that "really knows" this IPMI card has |
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been on vacation since last Monday so I'm stuck. |
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I'm also in the middle of an "interesting" experience for trying to |
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cross-ship a motherboard board with a dead on-board NIC. Tech support |
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said to contact the RMA department, RMA department said I had to contact |
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tech support to arrange for across-ship, tech support said they won't do |
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a cross-ship without an RMA # from the RMA department. After all this |
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tech support said that it was late in the day or someone would call me |
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the next day to arrange the cross-ship. That was a week ago. I e-mail |
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the RMA department again and got a phone call from someone in the RMA |
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department asking what was going on and wonder why I have an RMA # for |
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standard return when I'm asking for a cross-ship. Of course, as you |
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already know, only tech support can arrange for a cross-shipment so this |
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person decided to get in touch with them on my behalf and call me back. |
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It's now 5pm US/Hawaii time and I have not been called back. |
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Don't get me started about how useless it has become to attempt to |
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e-mail their tech support. If you want a response you have to call them |
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- at least their still responsive in answering the phone. |
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In the past Tyan has had _wonderful_ support and I have literally dozens |
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of their motherboards in production systems. I even have a Tyan board |
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in my home system. However, after this most recent experience I most |
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likely going to be investigating SuperMicro boards now they they support |
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Opterons. |
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Good luck, |
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-J |
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Ps. The S2882 is a dated but good board if you can live without PCI-E. |
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The S2982 seem to have wacky issues with the broadcom NIC ROMs. |
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On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:14:11AM -0400, Nuitari wrote: |
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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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