SuperMicro 5013

[John Rowan]

bruce wrote:

>john...
>
>just out of curiousity... did you call phoenix??? given that it's a phoenix
>bios.. their cust support might have some pointers to give you? also, what
>about intel directly?
>
>as an aside... when you do get the soln, would you mind writing up the
>prob/solution, and posting it back to this list!!!
>
>good luck, probs like these can be a pain!!!
>
>-bruce
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of John Rowan
>Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 6:30 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: SuperMicro 5013
>
>
>Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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>>On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:
>>
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>>>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.
>>
>>    
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>>> 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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I didn't think it was a Phoenix issue since all three (FC4, RH9 and SuSE 
Pro 9.1) installation CDs booted.  I will go to their and Intel's web 
sites to search for a solution.  Yes I will post here if I do get the 
machine running but having spent well over 18 hours on this already it's 
costing me money trying to get this running rather than addressing 
several of my clients projects.  I'm at the point where I'm going to 
chalk it up as incompatible and RMA it back to TigerDirect.com but 
another hour or so won't hurt, especially if I can get this working.

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