April 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

WLS 8.1 SP2
by einar 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hello, did anyone manage to install Weblogic 8.1 SP2 on SUSE 9.0 amd64? My install fails with an error code 11 and I wonder if somebody else was successful. regards, einar

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RE: [suse-amd64] Opteron Board preference ....
by Miller, Daniel J. 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Yes, it's always important to check. Tyan's Tiger K8W Opteron boards, MSI's 9130, etc. all limit memory slots to the first CPU. Most workstation boards with AGP slots (like the HDAMB and the others just listed) populate the RAM controllers of only one CPU. Tyan's Thunder K8W and Arima's HDAMC are the notable exceptions. But the Arima board has the longest track record of any fully populated (with DIMM slots) board. At the time of Opteron's launch, when Solectron refused to ship their AMD validated Opteron motherboards, the Arima HDAMA was the only 8 DIMM board available, and it stayed that way for a while. MSI shipped 4 and 6 DIMM boards at the time of the launch, too. Tyan and Asus boards followed later. I'm certain that you are well aware of all of this, but others might not be and it seemed like it was worth noting that Arima's HDAMA fully supports all 4 memory controllers and has the longest track record of any 8 DIMM Opteron server board, with the possible exception of the AMD designed reference boards used in Celestica systems (which are great boards, too, but can only be bought inside a Celestica system). Regards, Dan PS - Solectron's failure to ship was supposedly due to Intel influence, but who really knows - all we know is that box makers didn't receive their promised shipments, and I was told this by staff at several rather stunned tier 2 box makers, all of which had orders to fill and were scrambling to recover from Solectron's abrupt refusal to ship the AMD validated Opteron boards they'd promised. -----Original Message----- From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:48 PM To: Miller, Daniel J. Cc: mark(a)nostromo.net; suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Opteron Board preference .... On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:41:57 -0500 "Miller, Daniel J." <djmiller(a)anl.gov> wrote: > Support from the manufacturer for the Arima line of motherboards can > be found here: > > http://www.rioworks.com/Download/HDAMA.htm > > http://www.rioworks.com/Service-Download.htm One word of caution with Arima: While their motherboards seem to be very stable (not much problems reported) some of them like the HDAMB are not true NUMA: they have the memory connected only to a single CPU. If you want a well scaling Opteron system I would avoid such designs. Other boards from Arima may be ok in this regard. This can be normally easily checked on board pictures - the traces from the DIMM slots to the CPUs are visible. They should lead to both CPU sockets. -Andi -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Re: [suse-amd64] Dual Opteron Server Help
by Robert_Thilsted＠ord.uscourts.gov 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

As others have said, have it built. I bought a system from Monarch to my specifications (including the chassis, power supplies, and SCSI). It was worth it. If you buy from Monarck, then you are going to have to get them to use the Supermicro 9472? chassis vs the 7472? chassis. Check the Supermicro web sight. If you build your own, I would auggest the Supermicro 9x, 4u tower or rackmount chassis with dual SCSI backplane chassis and tripple power supply (up to ten 1" U320 SCA SCSI disks). This way you have all the "mechanicals" and can concentrate on the "electronics". |---------+----------------------------> | | "Fibersnet" | | | <mailinglist@fibe| | | rsnet.net> | | | | | | 04/03/04 09:09 PM| | | | |---------+----------------------------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: <suse-amd64(a)suse.com> | | cc: | | Subject: [suse-amd64] Dual Opteron Server Help | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| This server will funtion as a database server will that will store and select many chunks of small data at very high speeds. The hard drives will be in a raid 5 configuration with both the OS and the database being on the array. The OS will not be used too much but it will be on a redundant array along with the database. The server needs to have hot swappable drives so I am going to buy the SCSI chasis with SAF-TE The Adaptec controller also has support for SAF-TE The PSU is a redundant one because shutting down/rebooting this machine will be avoided at all costs. It is a mission critical server. The OS will be SUSE 64-bit running mysql 64bit binaries. I would be very gratful if you guys please review over the components and give me the OK to buy? I will make sure to get good PC 3200 ECC REGISTERED RAM but if you guys have any good links, please link me I plan to use Suse 9 64 bit. The server will run mysql only. How is the installation for Suse 9 with a Megaraid 320-1? Thank you! Chasis: Enlight EN-8950 ATX Tower http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...85a7e32ad42cdef CPU: 2x AMD Opteron 244 Processor http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...85a7e32ad42cdef Power Supply: Zippy MRW-6400P 400W EPS12V Redundant Power Supply http://www.stayonline.com/redundant...pplies/8908.asp Motherboard: TYAN 8131 K8 DP PGA940 MAX-16GB DDR 4PCI-X VGA 2BGE 3LAN SATA-R EATX http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...85a7e32ad42cdef Hard Drive: 4x Fujitsu MAS3367NC Series 36.7 GB http://fujitsu.pricegrabber.com/sea...85a7e32ad42cdef Hard Drive Chasis Supermicro 5 Bay SCSI HDD Enclosure http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...85a7e32ad42cdef Controller: Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120 Kit 64 bit/66MHz Ultra 320 RAID http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=16-118-014&depa=0 CDROM: LSI 64-bit PCI to Ultra320 single-channel SCSI Storage http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-120-501&depa=0 Floppy: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-103-202&depa=0 RAM: Will find 4GB of ECC REGISTERED

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Dual Opteron Server Help
by Fibersnet 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

This server will funtion as a database server will that will store and select many chunks of small data at very high speeds. The hard drives will be in a raid 5 configuration with both the OS and the database being on the array. The OS will not be used too much but it will be on a redundant array along with the database. The server needs to have hot swappable drives so I am going to buy the SCSI chasis with SAF-TE The Adaptec controller also has support for SAF-TE The PSU is a redundant one because shutting down/rebooting this machine will be avoided at all costs. It is a mission critical server. The OS will be SUSE 64-bit running mysql 64bit binaries. I would be very gratful if you guys please review over the components and give me the OK to buy? I will make sure to get good PC 3200 ECC REGISTERED RAM but if you guys have any good links, please link me I plan to use Suse 9 64 bit. The server will run mysql only. How is the installation for Suse 9 with a Megaraid 320-1? Thank you! Chasis: Enlight EN-8950 ATX Tower http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...85a7e32ad42cdef CPU: 2x AMD Opteron 244 Processor http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...85a7e32ad42cdef Power Supply: Zippy MRW-6400P 400W EPS12V Redundant Power Supply http://www.stayonline.com/redundant...pplies/8908.asp Motherboard: TYAN 8131 K8 DP PGA940 MAX-16GB DDR 4PCI-X VGA 2BGE 3LAN SATA-R EATX http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...85a7e32ad42cdef Hard Drive: 4x Fujitsu MAS3367NC Series 36.7 GB http://fujitsu.pricegrabber.com/sea...85a7e32ad42cdef Hard Drive Chasis Supermicro 5 Bay SCSI HDD Enclosure http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...85a7e32ad42cdef Controller: Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120 Kit 64 bit/66MHz Ultra 320 RAID http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=16-118-014&depa=0 CDROM: LSI 64-bit PCI to Ultra320 single-channel SCSI Storage http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-120-501&depa=0 Floppy: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...-103-202&depa=0 RAM: Will find 4GB of ECC REGISTERED

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sii6514 module (SIL3114 SATA controller) for 2.4.21-149-SMP kernel
by Jan Kolar 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

i have dual opteron 246, with SATA disks on TYAN S2885 motherboard. i have downloaded installation and packages for 9.0. the problem is that module sii6514.o for SIL3114 SATA controller is available only as binary (at ftp://ftp.tyan.com/drivers_linux/Silicon_Image/3114/). this is compiled for kernel 2.4.21-102-SMP while the current 9.0 installation uses 2.4.21-149-SMP kernel. obviously that provides a kernel panic at the boot time. does anybody know where can i get a corresponding sii6514.o somewhere? or can i get the corresponding kernel somewhere? or any other (reasonable) solution? thanks --jan -- Centre for 3D GeoInformation: The virtual geography specialists at http://www.3dgi.dk/en

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Hardware Raid Controllers
by Brenden E 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

Hello and thanks for your help. I currently have the choice of the LSI Megaraid 320-1 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-118-014&depa=0 or the Adaptec 64-bit PCI to SCSI RAID Controller Card http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-103-142&depa=0 I am going to use one of them with the Tyan S2882 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=241893 Which one has better Suse Support? Which one will need no extra drivers when installing Suse? I plan to use Suse 9 64-bit from an FTP install. I plan to use Raid 10 on the hardware raid side and hopefully Suse will just see the array and not the individual drives. Thank you guys! Brenden

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Re: [suse-amd64] eMachines AMD64 Notebook Can't intall
by Andi Kleen 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 12:32:57 -0400 "Phil Hodgkins" <searook(a)adelphia.net> wrote: [please keep discussions on the list] > Yes have tried all differant options of install but no good. When it > hangs it has to be rebooted as keyboard doesn't work after hang. Thanks for > the reply. Check if there is a setting like "USB legacy emulation" in the BIOS setup. If yes, disable that. -Andi

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porting assembler code
by ascotti＠email.unc.edu 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

Hi all, is there some document/resource addressing the issue of porting Athlon-optimized assembler code to the Opteron. Alberto Scotti

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eMachines AMD64 Notebook Can't intall
by Phil Hodgkins 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

Hi all I have a eMachine M6807 AMD 64 notebook. Was very happy to see Suse AMD64 came out and ourchased it. I soon discovered I can't install it as it hangs when it get to choosing keyboard. Doe's anyone know of a work solution to this problem. Thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.648 / Virus Database: 415 - Release Date: 4/1/2004

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Notebook Acer 1501
by Roland Hoffmann 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

I intend to buy an Acer Aspire 1501 notebook which is equipped with an amd athlon 64. Is there any experience with this system running under Suse-Linux? Thanks for answering.

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