SuperMicro 5013

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:

> When I boot the system it displays
>
> Phoenix - Award BIOS V6.00PG
> SuperMicro P4SCA/P4SCE BIOS 1.3A

yeah it's a p4sca or p4sce, thats consistent with everything else.

> On the bottom of the initial screen on left side it says
> 4/14/2005 - Canterwood - 6A79BSX9C-00

canterwood is intel 7210 chipset.

> 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.

Are you raiding the disks in the bios? If you are you shouldn't do that, 
it's a software raid controller. Rather you use linux software raid for 
that purpose.

Fedora core 4 does recognize the ich5r as a sata controller, but not as a 
raid controller, so your the bios is probably pointing at a raid device 
that doesn't really exist without some driver glue.

>  I'm in the process of installing FC4 for the 
> fifth time now to see if there is some way to salvage this hardware.

I've got a couple p4sci's out in the field running fc3, the only reall 
difference between those and these is 64 bit pci slots.

> It's 
> looking more and more like I'll be getting an RMA from TigerDirect.com for 
> this one.
>
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