Hi All:
We (the QA test lab) are going to get a quad, we are seriously considering the
supermicro S2QE6. What do you use, has anyone tried this board…
This is your chance to get your board of choice officialy supported by us.
Hi All:
We (the QA test lab) are going to get a quad, we are seriously
considering the
supermicro S2QE6. What do you use, has anyone tried this board…
This is your chance to get your board of choice officialy supported by us.
would that be the megaplex or the megaplexII? we spent weeks (literaly) trying
to get a price. Do you have one? if so what was the price, who did you buy from…
Previously, Andrew wrote in qdn.public.news:
{ how bout an American Megatrends?
{
{ andrew
{
{ “Pat Ford” <pford@qnx.com> wrote in message
{ news:Voyager.001024155932.11721E@funnel.qnx.com…
{ > Hi All:
{ > We (the QA test lab) are going to get a quad, we are seriously
{ considering the
{ > supermicro S2QE6. What do you use, has anyone tried this board…
{ > This is your chance to get your board of choice officialy supported by us.
{ >
{ > Thanks
{ >
{ >
{ > –
{ > Pat Ford email: pford@qnx.com
{ > QNX Software Systems, Ltd. WWW: http://www.qnx.com
{ > (613) 591-0931 (voice) mail: 175 Terence Matthews
{ > (613) 591-3579 (fax) Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
{ >
{
{
{
I don’t have one of these machines either, but they are certainly the ones
that I have been drooling over. If I did have to spec an SMP machine it
would probably be an AMI, although your problems getting a price are a bit
of a concern.
would that be the megaplex or the megaplexII? we spent weeks (literaly)
trying
to get a price. Do you have one? if so what was the price, who did you buy
from…
Previously, Andrew wrote in qdn.public.news:
{ how bout an American Megatrends?
{
{ andrew
{
{ “Pat Ford” <> pford@qnx.com> > wrote in message
{ news:> Voyager.001024155932.11721E@funnel.qnx.com> …
{ > Hi All:
{ > We (the QA test lab) are going to get a quad, we are seriously
{ considering the
{ > supermicro S2QE6. What do you use, has anyone tried this board…
{ > This is your chance to get your board of choice officialy supported by
us.
{
{ > Thanks
{
{
{ > –
{ > Pat Ford email: > pford@qnx.com
{ > QNX Software Systems, Ltd. WWW: > http://www.qnx.com
{ > (613) 591-0931 (voice) mail: 175 Terence Matthews
{ > (613) 591-3579 (fax) Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M
1W8
{
{
{
{
I vote a resounding “NAY” for any AMI product. Here’s the gory stuff (skip
to the next paragraph if you’re a positive thinker):
They totally screwed me on a PII-333 that to this day still only “sorta”
works. It was absolutely awful, the thing came out of the box and would
boot Win98 then barf during the install. Wouldn’t boot QNX4 at all. After
repeatedly (over a 6 week period) being ignored by AMI tech support both on
the phone and via E-Mail (30-day return period had expired and they wouldn’t
let me off the hook), someone finally sent me a BIOS upgrade with a terse
note saying “forgot to load microcode into CPU”. The machine then booted
and installed Windoze & QNX4, but when I tried to fill up the PCI slots, it
duplicated an IRQ AND memory address range (where I had plenty of each
available to use) across a network card and a Fibre Channel card, which
needless to say didn’t work so hot. From what I could tell, they had
grabbed a BIOS from a 4 PCI slot board and cobbled it to (barely) run this 5
slot board. They neglected to account for the 5th slot in all areas, and
that’s why things got screwed up. I bugged them for another 8 weeks, got
another mysterious upgrade which failed to produce any visible differences
in the board’s behavior, bugged them for another few weeks and finally just
gave up on it. The entire time not a single upgrade appeard on their web
site under the “BIOS Upgrades” section for that particular board. We used
to exclusively buy AMI boards (lots of them, in fact) and had great luck
with their products and support, then all of the sudden it all went to Iowa
in a handbasket. I wouldn’t go there if I were you (or me, for that
matter).
We’ve got a dual Xeon Asus board that we’ve had startup issues (FSB speeds,
BIOS upgrades and so on) that were handled well, and a SuperMicro dual that
was flawless although relatively short lived at motherboardexpress.com
(P3DME I think). Tyan was suggested by another developer here as a good
alternative as well, and I’d vote for any of the three depending on how easy
they are to come by. After all, if you can’t find one I don’t see why I’d
have any better luck…
Just my $0.012 CDN…
-Warren “Got in an Iowa AND Canada prod in the same message!” Peece
“Pat Ford” <> pford@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.001024155932.11721E@funnel.qnx.com> …
Hi All:
We (the QA test lab) are going to get a quad, we are seriously
considering the
supermicro S2QE6. What do you use, has anyone tried this board…
This is your chance to get your board of choice officialy supported by
us.
I vote a resounding “NAY” for any AMI product. Here’s the gory stuff
(skip
to the next paragraph if you’re a positive thinker):
They totally screwed me on a PII-333 that to this day still only “sorta”
works. It was absolutely awful, the thing came out of the box and would
boot Win98 then barf during the install. Wouldn’t boot QNX4 at all.
After
repeatedly (over a 6 week period) being ignored by AMI tech support both
on
the phone and via E-Mail (30-day return period had expired and they
wouldn’t
let me off the hook), someone finally sent me a BIOS upgrade with a terse
note saying “forgot to load microcode into CPU”. The machine then booted
and installed Windoze & QNX4, but when I tried to fill up the PCI slots,
it
duplicated an IRQ AND memory address range (where I had plenty of each
available to use) across a network card and a Fibre Channel card, which
needless to say didn’t work so hot. From what I could tell, they had
grabbed a BIOS from a 4 PCI slot board and cobbled it to (barely) run this
5
slot board. They neglected to account for the 5th slot in all areas, and
that’s why things got screwed up. I bugged them for another 8 weeks, got
another mysterious upgrade which failed to produce any visible differences
in the board’s behavior, bugged them for another few weeks and finally
just
gave up on it. The entire time not a single upgrade appeard on their web
site under the “BIOS Upgrades” section for that particular board. We used
to exclusively buy AMI boards (lots of them, in fact) and had great luck
with their products and support, then all of the sudden it all went to
Iowa
in a handbasket. I wouldn’t go there if I were you (or me, for that
matter).
We’ve got a dual Xeon Asus board that we’ve had startup issues (FSB
speeds,
BIOS upgrades and so on) that were handled well, and a SuperMicro dual
that
was flawless although relatively short lived at motherboardexpress.com
(P3DME I think). Tyan was suggested by another developer here as a good
alternative as well, and I’d vote for any of the three depending on how
easy
they are to come by. After all, if you can’t find one I don’t see why I’d
have any better luck…
Just my $0.012 CDN…
-Warren “Got in an Iowa AND Canada prod in the same message!” Peece
“Pat Ford” <> pford@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.001024155932.11721E@funnel.qnx.com> …
Hi All:
We (the QA test lab) are going to get a quad, we are seriously
considering the
supermicro S2QE6. What do you use, has anyone tried this board…
This is your chance to get your board of choice officialy supported by
us.
I’ve used 2 Tyan SMP motherboards in machines at home and never had any
problems. I’m using dual P3/700’s in this machine right now and it’s worked
out great. Plus their SMP boards usually include built-in 10/100 ethernet
and some form of adaptec dual channel SCSI adapter… They are total
server-class products and Tyan is the OEM for some of the big name system
vendors so expect to pay for what you are getting and to not get a lot of
features aimed at tweakers who want to overclock their system…
We just got 2 supermicro super S2QE6 quad mother boards, man are these ever huge!
the main board is 13"x18" and the memory board is around the same size as the old fullsized isa cards. the url is http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_HE/S2QE6.htm
I’ll post info about this board and QNXrtp as I get all the part to get it working.
btw it will take upto 16 Gbytes of memory!!
Previously, Marisa Giancarla wrote in qdn.public.news:
{ I’ve used 2 Tyan SMP motherboards in machines at home and never had any
{ problems. I’m using dual P3/700’s in this machine right now and it’s worked
{ out great. Plus their SMP boards usually include built-in 10/100 ethernet
{ and some form of adaptec dual channel SCSI adapter… They are total
{ server-class products and Tyan is the OEM for some of the big name system
{ vendors so expect to pay for what you are getting and to not get a lot of
{ features aimed at tweakers who want to overclock their system…
{
{ Marisa
{
{
{
{
Stick >4G memory in there, and let me know if everything still works. Then go
beat up on the developers to put large memory support in!
-Warren
“Pat Ford” <pford@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.001103105736.1052D@funnel.qnx.com…
| We just got 2 supermicro super S2QE6 quad mother boards, man are these ever
huge!
| the main board is 13"x18" and the memory board is around the same size as the
old fullsized isa cards. the url is http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_HE/S2QE6.htm
|
| I’ll post info about this board and QNXrtp as I get all the part to get it
working.
| btw it will take upto 16 Gbytes of memory!!
They’d have to make system 64bit to do it and I doubt that’s in their
immediate plans.
OTOH, I’m interested to see if they will make the onboard SCSI work >:->
igor
Warren Peece wrote:
Stick >4G memory in there, and let me know if everything still works. Then go
beat up on the developers to put large memory support in! >
-Warren
“Pat Ford” <> pford@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.001103105736.1052D@funnel.qnx.com> …
| We just got 2 supermicro super S2QE6 quad mother boards, man are these ever
huge!
| the main board is 13"x18" and the memory board is around the same size as the
old fullsized isa cards. the url is http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_HE/S2QE6.htm
|
| I’ll post info about this board and QNXrtp as I get all the part to get it
working.
| btw it will take upto 16 Gbytes of memory!!
We just got 2 supermicro super S2QE6 quad mother boards, man are these ever huge!
the main board is 13"x18" and the memory board is around the same size as the old fullsized isa cards. the url is > http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_HE/S2QE6.htm
I’ll need one of them if I’m ever going to port StarOffice! ;v)
come by my cube and see it its freaken huge ( and heavy)
Previously, Colin Burgess wrote in qdn.public.news:
{ Pat Ford <pford@qnx.com> wrote:
{ > We just got 2 supermicro super S2QE6 quad mother boards, man are these ever huge!
{ > the main board is 13"x18" and the memory board is around the same size as the old fullsized isa cards. the url is http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_HE/S2QE6.htm
{
{ I’ll need one of them if I’m ever going to port StarOffice! ;v)
They’d have to make system 64bit to do it and I doubt that’s in their
immediate plans.
OTOH, I’m interested to see if they will make the onboard SCSI work >:-
igor
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