SuperMicro 5013

[Joel Jaeggli]

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?
>
>
>

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