SMP, ICH9. Or Mikrotik is only for poor budget users?

RouterOS General
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Hello.
I think my english is not so bad to understand it.

Problem has been discused many times. SMP support. Main problem: all new motherboards, (to use dual or quad core) is on ICH9, has no support for IDE controller. All motherboards use different IDE controllers, not bult in. To use these motherboard, we have to use USB, SATA, CF to USB or other Drive to boot. What is not so comfortable.
Question: will Mikrotik team find reason to solve this problem?

On old chipset (865, some 965) all is OK. But we need real performance. Motherboard with old chipset can not give good performance. Usage of server boards: sometimes is not acceptable.

What to do?

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Have you tried V3?

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Yes. Only version 3.

So, at this time we have problem (v3rc11):
we cann’t boot MT from drive attached to IDE controllers on modern Intel (ICH8 and ICH9) SB. Most common used chips to implement IDE support at this time are: JMB361/363/368. So question is will MT support them? linux

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non-poor budget user can’t buy SATA drive?

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Can, and we will do it. But it is upgrade, not a new system. We have a lot of IDE devices with working configs and licenses.

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Buy a PoweRouter 732 instead of a PC system. Runs on Compact Flash, don’t have to worry about it then.

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So if i didn’t missunderstood you, your advice is: buy an old Intel platform, with Pentium D (real iron and low perfomance), instead of modern chipset, cpu and huge perfomance reserve? And what I get is IDE support, industrial board for a double price?
For that price i can buy an server mb, with Intel Xeon Quad processor, power supply with a hotplug, brand PCI IDE controller, 4u case, ECC memory and get higher perfomance, and easy upgradable system.

What I need now is modern Quad core CPU support within MT. Problem is that MT licenses what I already have are installed on IDE drives, so I need IDE support to use them on new systems. So now we about to use SATA->IDE adapters, USB->IDE and so on…

So what about JMB36x support?

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Reglardess of the issues. I don’t recommend Mikrotik on non-hardened non-industrial grade x86 platforms. In a pinch they work, but in production they tend to fail for reasons outside of software. I have had way too many customer’s networks go down due to a main board, or other hardware issue. I would suggest purchasing hardware that Mirkrotik Supports as well as look at the supported hardware section of the on-line docs so that you know what hardware you need.