SuperMicro 5013

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, 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?

Supermicro actually, has a lot of linux expertise. phoenix isn't going to 
know alot about the mainboard in question.

> 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:
>
>>
>> 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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