[svlug] Hardware: What motherboard is good for Xeons?

[Rob Walker]

>>>>> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:20:34 -0800, Yani Copas <yani at etoys.com>
>>>>> said:

Yani> Does anyone have experience running xeons (quad xeons?) under
Yani> linux?  People here at eToys are arguing about what motherboard

yes.

Yani> will work for setting this up.  Apparently there was a quad xeon
Yani> operational and on display at the O'reilly Opensource Developers
Yani> Day - would anybody on this list know what motherboard it had in
Yani> it?

we have one or two of them at VA.  i don't know whether or not we are
selling them yet.  we could be, i just stay out of that loop.  i
believe all of the motherboards are from intel, as are the
chassis[es].  One of them (chassis) is called the aspen drake, and the 
other is the sidka cabrillo (spelling?).

the aspen drake has two memory boards, each holding 512MB RAM, wihch
fit in right underneath the board which has the four CPUs on it.  On
the other side is the board which has 5 32bit pci slots and 5 64bit
pci slots.  (ISA, not sure).  Intel makes all of this, and I recall
hearing that 'engineering sample' was stamped on one of these, too.

If you were at comdex right now, you could see one.  I don't know
when it will make it back to VA.

rob

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