I forgot to bring to the attention of this list the answer below by Tyan motherboards (i informed previously the amd64 list)
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Tyan Europe Date: Monday 29 May 2006 11:37 From: "Tyan Technical Support - Tech 4" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Francesco, We do not support Debian OS on any of our boards. If you are having problems, you will need to test this again with a supported OS, which you can find in the manual. Best regards TYAN Technical Support ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francesco Pietra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mattias Wadenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Karl Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 7:17 AM Subject: Re: Tyan Europe > Hi Mattias: > > Do you have any exclusive channel to Tyan Europe, exclusive permission to > contact the right person, and knowledge about the hunting season to catch > them? I had none and I would not make use of any such trick, shout it > exist. > I just used the official address given on the Tyan web page > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > and got no answer so far. > > Your mention of linux-specific bios from Tyan makes me willing to try to > contact Tyan again to ask for such bios software for my Tyan KWE 2895 used > with two dual opterons and nearly full ram. I do not need any more > information on Tyan raid1 because I was informed on this list that raid1 > from > linux 64 debian is superior and I already installed it. I have not tried > to > verify if grub is on both disks, but I can not imagine how it could be not > so, because I placed grub on the root while not seeing any of the two > disks. > I just saw a virtual partition for both. > > To conclude, I was not trying to place Tyan Europe under any bad light. I > simply asked to this list if the address I used is correct. It may even be > than my e-mail did not reach them and your reply to my mail suggests that > it > was at least "no smart address" > > Cheers > > francesco pietra > > On Monday 29 May 2006 07:22, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: >> On Sun, 28 May 2006, Karl Schmidt wrote: >> > Francesco Pietra wrote: >> >> Any experience with Tyan Europe technical support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])? >> >> >> >> I posed a question to the above address about raid1 support by the >> >> mainboard Tyan KWE 2895. The question was unanswered. >> > >> > Tyan USA blew off a recent question as soon as I mentioned Linux (the >> > question really was particular to Linux) - they apparently don't see >> > Linux users as important to support. - That being said, they do better >> > support than most MB providers. >> >> Just for another data point, we have gotten Linux-specific bios fixes >> from >> Tyan, so it all depends on who you are talking to and when. >> >> /Mattias Wadenstein ------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
