JM> can you tell me some more, like how it works under load, say in a
JM> network, please. tyan's are also just recntly available in
JM> australia. they are also well like in frebsd circles (from what i
I have a Tyan Tiger S1692S (as you know) and it seems fine.  Once I
got the CD Jumper problem fixed, I have had no problems with it.  I
have Debian Linux and Warp 4.0 running on it.  The results from DISKIO
are as follows :
DISKIO - Fixed Disk Benchmark, Version 1.14
(C) 1994-1998 Kai Uwe Rommel
Number of fixed disks: 1
Number of CD-ROM drives: 1
Dhrystone 2.1 C benchmark routines (C) 1988 Reinhold P. Weicker
Dhrystone benchmark for this CPU: 541304 runs/sec
Hard disk 1: 255 sides, 1027 cylinders, 63 sectors per track = 8056 MB
Drive cache/bus transfer rate: 26607 k/sec
Data transfer rate on track 0   : 9145 k/sec
Data transfer rate on track 1025: 5182 k/sec
CPU usage by full speed disk transfers: 10%
Average latency time: 0.2 ms
Average data access time: 15.8 ms
CD-ROM drive G: 78119 sectors = 152 MB
Data transfer rate: 2106 k/sec (~14.0x)
CPU usage by full speed CD-ROM reads: 81%
Average data access time: 74.4 ms
Concurrent hard disk 1 and CD-ROM 1 reads at full speed:
Hard disk throughput: 5370 k/sec
CD-ROM throughput: 1899 k/sec
CPU usage: 97%
Note Jonathan, that the transfer rate on the 32x ATAPI CD-ROM is 14x,
EXACTLY as you predicted!    I AM impressed!  The one thing I
would point out in the Tyan vs. the SuperMicro, is that I could NOT
find a SuperMicro board with 4 DIMM slots in a Single CPU model.  In
fact the Tyans were the ONLY single CPU boards that had 4 instead of 3
DIMM slots.  (There is a Gigabyte board that meets this, but I was told
Gigabyte recalled it or some similiar B.S).  Say, what do you recommend
for an UW SCSI drive?
Thanks,
Peter
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