SuperMicro 5013

[Steve Eberhart]

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.  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?
> 
> 
I have had problems with memory cards from Tiger Direct.  I built up 
three Soyo Dragon servers all running FC4 and out of six 512MB memory 
cards three were bad and caused the systems to behave like you describe. 
  Boot the first FC4 disk and run the memory test.  This easily found 
the bad memory cards.  After replacing them I have had no problem with 
the servers.

Steve Eberhart