Re: Experience With Intel D815EEAL MotherBoard

["Jay Meltzer" <jm golem net>]

Rodolfo,

Thank you for your insights. It's great to know that your experiences with
the ABIT KT7A and RH linux have been positive.

I have been using the ABITKT7A board for about a month or so and have been
very happy with it as well. I might yet go the ABIT route for the linux
system.

Thanks,
Jay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@gold.guate.net>
To: <guinness-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: Experience With Intel D815EEAL MotherBoard


> At 3/28/01 09:37 PM -0500, you wrote:
> >PS I just built an ABIT KT7A Raid system (already loaded with a MS OS)
and
> >was also contemplating using this type of mobo (w/o RAID), but am
concerned
> >about via chipset and Highpoint compatibility issues,so the I'm thinking
> >intel might be a smarter choice?
>
>
> My small webhosting business runs on two servers at the moment. Both have
> the Abit KT7-RAID mobos (100MHz FSB), 900MHz Athlons, 256MB RAM, and two
> (2) 20GB drives connected to the mobo's base controller. They are
perfectly
> stable and fast (99.9904% uptime over 90 days now... total of three
reboots
> due to user errors).
>
> I most highly recommend the Abit board. You'll find reviews at
> www.anandtech.com also recommending this as one of the most stable boards
> out there. This, plus the cost and speed advantage of Athlon over PIII, is
> a Big Deal.
>
> The Highpoint controllers run under Linux now, although I'm not using
those
> on a *server* until they've been tested some more. RAID capability is not
> supported yet, but I'll wait. The cost difference of $15 to get a
> RAID-enabled board is so small that I felt I *had* to have it. Note that,
> even if you don't use RAID, you still get up to eight ATA/100 devices
> instead of four. That in itself is worth the $15, so I do recommend that
> you buy the RAID boards if possible.
>
> I'm about to build new servers in a month or so, and they're all getting
> KT7A-RAID boards.
>
> --
> Rodolfo J. Paiz
> rpaiz@gold.guate.net
>
>
>
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