Volker A. Brandt wrote:
The MCP55 is the chipset currently in use in the Sun X2200 M2 series of
servers.
... which has big problems with certain Samsung SATA disks. :-(
So if you get such a board be sure to avoid Samsung 750GB and
1TB disks. Samsung never aknowledged the bug, nor have they released
a firmware update. And nVidia never said anything about it either.
Of course I only found out about it after buying lots of Samsung disks
for our X2200s.
Sigh...
Regards -- Volker
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That is true, and it slipped my mind. Thanks for reminding me, Volker.
I'm a Hitachi disk user myself, and they work swell. The Seagates I have
in my X2200 M2 seem to work fine, as well.
I've not tried any SSDs yet with the MCP55 - since they're heavily
Samsung under the hood (regardless of whose name is on the outside), I
_hope_ it was just a HD-specific firmware bug.
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