January 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

uncachable mtrr setting on Quartets ?
by daniel.kidger＠quadrics.com 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hi, We have noticed a default mtrr on our Quartet nodes (kernel=2.4.21-171 with both 4GB and 8GB RAM) # cat /proc/mtrr reg01: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1 Why is this uncachable mtrr setting made? - it isn't there on dual CPU nodes (Celestica and Newisys - both 2GB RAM): $ cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 We have a PCI device that can get tremendous performance improvements if we enable write-combining to its on board memory and registers. But we cannot change the mtrr settings against its BARs due to this uncachable mapping. e.g. when we do echo 'base=0xe0000000 size=0x10000000 type=write-combining' >| /proc/mtrr we get this dmesg; mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,10000000 old: uncachable new: write-combining Disabling this uncachable mapping and then replacing it with new ones generally causes the node to hang or crash. Doe anyone know if there is a way to enable write-combining for our device BARs ? Yours, Daniel. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. daniel.kidger(a)quadrics.com One Bridewell St., Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK 0117 915 5505 ----------------------- www.quadrics.com -------------------- >

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SATA - thanks
by Chuck Gibke 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

I have had an Athlon64 system (Asus K8V motherboard) system set up since September and have been running Suse v9.0-64 since November. I have been having the same problems with the VIA 8237 chipset and SATA support that others have had - the VIA and Promise controllers are not supported with the 2.4.21 kernel. After lurking here, I saw mention of the 3ware SATA product working natively and took a look into it - I ordered the lowest end board - 8006 - and just received and installed it. After poking around and getting the 3w module loaded, I was able to partition and mount the drive (my system drive is just plain old IDE). It is in use as I write this... Just wanted to say thanks for the discussions and recommendations - I have a working SATA drive now! ......Chuck Arlington, Texas, USA

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AW: [suse-amd64] SIL-SATA Drivers for amd64 here
by Khamenia, Valery 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

show must go on > [...]but still Beta Release. > ftp://ftp.tyan.com/drivers_linux/Silicon_Image/3114/ > http://www.tyan.com/l_german/support/html/drivers_linux.html well, RAID-0 doesn't work and just for fun i've tried RAID1. YaST2 detected harddisk OK, but after format I got the infinite timeout. I restart machine first time and try to install again. Well, and again i got infinite timeout but in addition no response to keyboard. Well, I restart machine again and... one of two absolutelly new MAXTOR HDDs starts to tick rhythmically, absolutelly similar as those HDDs before die, when HDD head reaches movement range clipper. Then, one disk is not found by *BIOS*. I thought HDD is simply went down... but then I've found, that it runs OK alone ! then i've removed one HDDs of two to get somehow into a RAID setup and deleted RAID set. Restart. All disks were found OK, but BIOS doesn't go anymore further :-/ after several reboot it all works again ! I've never heard about possibility to make nice rhythmic sounds hitting the clipper by the head via normally working controller or even get ability to fail detecting HDDs by BIOS ... my question: is SIL 3114 OK at all? -- Valery

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AW: [suse-amd64] SIL-SATA Drivers for amd64 here
by Khamenia, Valery 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi all > maybe it's interesting that Tyan offers first sil3114 SATA Controller > Raid/Non-Raid for SuSE and RedHat AMD64 on 16.01.2004. > These are general Linux drivers, not for Tyan-boards only, > but still Beta Release. > ftp://ftp.tyan.com/drivers_linux/Silicon_Image/3114/ > http://www.tyan.com/l_german/support/html/drivers_linux.html I've tried exactly this driver for my Tyan Thunder K8W. The disk with driver was successfully scanned during "fresh" SuSE 9 installation (I saw this at CTRL-ALT-F4 window). Then YaST2 starts and searches all resources to preset the configuration for installation. and here comes an old problem: YaST2 sais: "Error: no hard disk were found for the installation. Please check your hardware." hm, well, /proc/scsi/SiI6514/0 shows that driver is on, in particular two MAXTOR HDDs are attached but /proc/scsi/scsi gives: attached devices: none. What is nonsense, because HDDs are attached as RAID-0 through the BIOS. Guys and girls, any success here? Thanks a priori. -- Valery A.Khamenya

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SIL-SATA Drivers for amd64 here
by Marco Maske 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hello, maybe it's interesting that Tyan offers first sil3114 SATA Controller Raid/Non-Raid for SuSE and RedHat AMD64 on 16.01.2004. These are general Linux drivers, not for Tyan-boards only, but still Beta Release. ftp://ftp.tyan.com/drivers_linux/Silicon_Image/3114/ http://www.tyan.com/l_german/support/html/drivers_linux.html -- Ciao Marco, registered GNU/Linux-User 313353

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Re: [suse-amd64] SATA RAID on VIA 8237
by Milan Gabor 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi! How about this one: Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus Is this also some SORT OF RAID, or does this controller provide HW raid for SATA? MIlan Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:27:54PM +0100, Milan Gabor wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>I somehow managed to install on Serial ATA on MSI K8T motherboard with >>VIA 8237. >> >>But I have some questions. At the install time, kernel sees two drives, >>even If I created from RAID menu RAID array for RAID 1 for mirroring. >> >>So I have installed on /dev/sda. >> >>Now I am wondering why there are two drives, that kernel shows. >>Shouldn't be only array seen? >> >>If I install it on /dev/sda means this also, that since it is array, >>/dev/sdb is mirror from /dev/sda? >> >>Or I am missing sometning? > > > The vt8237 by itself has no RAID capability. Thus Linux will always see > the separate drivers. All the RAID magic is just in the BIOS and Windows > drivers. Use the LVM or MD/RAID capabilities in Linux to get a RAID > array (and one with a better performance usually, too). >

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-178 -183 ?
by Jyh-Shyong Ho 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

I just online updated my SLSE8 for AMD64 to 2.4.21-178-smp, however, in directory /usr/src, there is linux-2.4.21-183 and linux-2.4.21-183-include, but no linux-2.4.21-178. It is confusing. is there anything wrong? I am trying to re-install gm-2.0.8_Linux (from Myrinet) after the updating the kernel, but some include files are missing. Any suggestion? Best regards Jyh-Shyong Ho, Ph.D. Research Scientist National Center for High-Performance Computing Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

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PVM on SuSE 9.0 for AMD64
by Jyh-Shyong Ho 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

Hi, Does anyone run PVM of SuSE 9 for AMD64 successfully? I tried SLES 8 for AMD64 last June but failed to initate PVM daemon, recently I tried again on SuSE 9 for AMD64, it is still not working. Any hint of the failure is appreciated. I tried the one comes with SuSE and also tried the one compiled from the source code. Jyh-Shyong Ho, PhD. Research Scientist National Center for High-Performance Computing Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC -- NCHC (http://www.nchc.org.tw/)

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Promise PD20378 driver for Asus Sock754 not recognised
by Bahadir Balban 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

Hi, The recently released Promise 378 SATA/RAID driver for Suse 9.0 is not recognised during installation, when the driver is attempted to be loaded from floppy as an additional driver. All I did is extract the downloaded driver to a formatted floppy in Windows and then inserted it during install when asked. Is there a particular directory structure that I'm missing for the install software to recognise the driver? ft3xx.o and some other files were there on the floppy why doesn't it find it? Did any other AMD64 user have same problem? Thanks, Bahadir --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes

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SuSE 9 Pro - HDAMB - Problems With Audigy
by John Chronister 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

Anyone experienced problems with Soundblaster Audigy? The module refuses to load, and if I modprobe it manually the box hangs. -chron

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