[NTLUG:Discuss] Router or switch?

[Joel Sinor]

On Tue, 06 May 2003 14:01:32 -0500
Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:

> Joel Sinor wrote:
<snip>
> > Come to think of it, looking on Asus site, it looks like I may
have
> > been wrong about the audio, as this guy
> > (http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7n8x/overview.htm) is the
> > most likely suspect...
> > 
> 
> That's the board I've got, non deluxe version.  For the most part it 
> works but is unstable.  From everything I've found the only real 
> stability issue that should be causing me problems is UDMA support in 
> the kernel for the chipset.  Alan Cox included a patch in the 2.4.21 
> pre-5 (or 4) source tree that resolves this issue.  It will lockup
> from time to time and seems to be at it's worst when lots of graphics
> or java are involved.  The worst apps seem to be VMWare (with win98
> running Quicken as the worst), mozilla (with java enabled sites), and
> games.
> 
<snip>
Hmm, well given all these problems, I think I will probably pass on the
board.  I had planned for some time to build a machine based on one of
the series of Tyan multiproc athlon boards, and recently read Alan Cox
uses/likes these (but dislikes the built in scsi, recommending instead a
scsi add-on card for that), and Fry's has consistently had the non-scsi
version cheaper than I have foudn it on the internet, so I guess we are
back to this one being the next machine I build.