Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:
One of my customers was tired of the noise levels from the Proliant
6400R in his office. He wanted something that would be quieter but
also faster. TigerDirect sent him an email saying the 3GHz SuperMicro
5013 1U was the device he longed for. He ordered the 3GHz 1Gigabyte
RAM dual 120 gigabyte SATA disk unit since the web site said it
worked with Linux. I tried installing Fedora Core 4 which said it
was successful but upon rebooting the machine it hung at a GRUB
prompt for 30 seconds then rebooted.
The supermicro 5013 is a chassis, Which supermicro mainboard is
actually in this chassis. It sounds like a single p4 mainboard with
sata but that narrows it down to about half the 5013 variants. rh9 is
going to be too old by far for this system, the sweet spot for getting
it working is going to be in the fc2-fc4 range (2.6 kernel) once we
know that motherboard variant and therefore chipset, it would be
easier to recomend a course of action.
I reverted to RH 9.0 but it doesn't have drivers for the SATA RAID
controller. I also tried SuSE Pro 9.1 but that also does not have
drivers for this RAID controller. I've done 9 installs with FC4,
RH9 or SuSE Pro 9.1 today all failing. FC4 has drivers for the
controller but after installation it fails to boot. RH9 and SuSE do
not recognize the drivers I've downloaded from SuperMicro.com. Does
anyone know where I can get drivers for RH9 or SuSE, or why the
machine hangs for 30 seconds after reboot with a GRUB prompt on the
screen?
When I boot the system it displays
Phoenix - Award BIOS V6.00PG
SuperMicro P4SCA/P4SCE BIOS 1.3A
On the bottom of the initial screen on left side it says
4/14/2005 - Canterwood - 6A79BSX9C-00
Pressing CTRL-I brings up the screen to configure the level of RAID (0 or 1)
On top of that screen it says Intel RAID for Serial ATA V3.5.0.3003
The front of the case says SuperMicro but on the top (slide off) cover
it says Visionman. I've been to both SuperMicro.com and Visionman.com
web sites but neither has a Linux driver for Intel. They have drivers
they say are for RH 9 with specific kernel versions but neither of those
work.
I don't understand why the Fedora Core 4 installation (which recognized
the RAID controller and loaded the correct driver) failed to boot after
it said the installation was complete. I'm in the process of installing
FC4 for the fifth time now to see if there is some way to salvage this
hardware. It's looking more and more like I'll be getting an RMA from
TigerDirect.com for this one.
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John Rowan
Rownetco, Inc.
Office: 973 697 8019
Fax: 973 697 4443
Cell: 973 229 5742
E-Mail: rowan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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