On Fri, 28 May 2004, Jerome Jamnicky wrote:
Do you know what MB is in the system? Is the memory configuration NUMA --
Jimbo is in the colo now, and by visual inspection, the mobo is: on the 4 new P4s: Superdot P4SCE, Rev. 2.1 on the older P4s: Superdot P4SCE, same as above, except Rev. 2.01
SuperMicro... super with a filled in "O". That's a nice little board. Heh, "Optional CPU overclocking"
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7210/P4SCE.cfm
These have a hardware watchdog that could be of great value (esp. to whomever has to drive over to the colo to reset a hung box.)
On the BIOS Advanced Settings->BIOS Features screen, enable APIC mode if available. It'll improve IRQ routing. An SMP kernel will be needed to use this capability.
On the BIOS Advanced Settings->Advanced Chipset Control, "On-Chip Serial ATA" might need to be set to "Enhanced Mode". Auto might also work. "SATA Mode" should be "IDE" (RAID is intel's software raid. linux doesn't support it at the moment.) Set the S-ATA port modes to SATA Master. In theory, that should get the SATA drives off by themselves at full SATA-150 speeds.
--Ricky