Anyone using boards with this chipset? I've gotten some dual core single cpu boxes along with the physical dual cpu boxes I just received and they're using the Serverworks HT1000 (Broadcom 5785) chipset. My CentOS 4.2 DVD doesn't want to recognize the chipset so I can't see any of the SATA drives in the integrated SATA ports. Drives on 3Ware cards work as expected, but I was hoping to also make use of the integrated SATA ports. I'm downloading 4.3 via bitorrent now, but I suspect that isn't going to solve the problem without some command line magic.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Anyone using boards with this chipset? I've gotten some dual core single cpu boxes along with the physical dual cpu boxes I just received and they're using the Serverworks HT1000 (Broadcom 5785) chipset. My CentOS 4.2 DVD doesn't want to recognize the chipset so I can't see any of the SATA drives in the integrated SATA ports. Drives on 3Ware cards work as expected, but I was hoping to also make use of the integrated SATA ports. I'm downloading 4.3 via bitorrent now, but I suspect that isn't going to solve the problem without some command line magic. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
OK, I've gotten the x86_64 CentOS 4.3 DVD downloaded now so I'll have another go at it. I managed to find a "driver disk" from Supermicro's ftp server for RHEL4 so I'm hoping that will fix the problem. According to a few posts I found in various forums, the driver I'm after seems to be "sata_svw". Hopefully, that does it. Otherwise, I guess it's time so scrounge up some extra 3ware cards instead. :-)
Cheers,
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Anyone using boards with this chipset? I've gotten some dual core single cpu boxes along with the physical dual cpu boxes I just received and they're using the Serverworks HT1000 (Broadcom 5785) chipset. My CentOS 4.2 DVD doesn't want to recognize the chipset so I can't see any of the SATA drives in the integrated SATA ports. Drives on 3Ware cards work as expected, but I was hoping to also make use of the integrated SATA ports. I'm downloading 4.3 via bitorrent now, but I suspect that isn't going to solve the problem without some command line magic. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
OK, I've gotten the x86_64 CentOS 4.3 DVD downloaded now so I'll have another go at it. I managed to find a "driver disk" from Supermicro's ftp server for RHEL4 so I'm hoping that will fix the problem. According to a few posts I found in various forums, the driver I'm after seems to be "sata_svw". Hopefully, that does it. Otherwise, I guess it's time so scrounge up some extra 3ware cards instead. :-)
That seems to work (sorta). I had to configure the SATA controller to use MMIO instead of the default IDE setting. Then when I get the linux prompt when booting from the DVD I type "linux dd". When it later asks me if I have a driver disk, I say "no" and all appears to work normally. However, the machines crash/hang when the partitions are being formatted. Since this is just for burn in and testing, I use the default partitions that are suggested and it formats root just fine and then hangs about 90% of the way through /boot....every time on more than one machine. :-(
Any suggestions?
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Chris Mauritz wrote:
That seems to work (sorta). I had to configure the SATA controller to use MMIO instead of the default IDE setting. Then when I get the linux prompt when booting from the DVD I type "linux dd". When it later asks me if I have a driver disk, I say "no" and all appears to work normally. However, the machines crash/hang when the partitions are being formatted. Since this is just for burn in and testing, I use the default partitions that are suggested and it formats root just fine and then hangs about 90% of the way through /boot....every time on more than one machine. :-(
Any suggestions?
I had one machine (I forget the make/model) that would consistently crash during installation.
My workaround was to do a minimal installation to get the machine up and running. Then after the reboot, I used "yum groupinstall" to finish things.
I don't know what the bug was, but some combination of network (fetching packages), CPU (decompressing packages), and disk (writing packages) stressed things in unacceptable ways.
Once the machine was up, it worked flawlessly, even under stress.
ymmv.
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Since this is just for burn in and testing, I use the default partitions that are suggested and it formats root just fine and then hangs about 90% of the way through /boot....every time on more than one machine. :-(
try installing in text mode. Keep an eye on vc#3 and vc#4 for whats going on...
- KB
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Since this is just for burn in and testing, I use the default partitions that are suggested and it formats root just fine and then hangs about 90% of the way through /boot....every time on more than one machine. :-(
try installing in text mode. Keep an eye on vc#3 and vc#4 for whats going on...
I'll have to give that a try. I popped in both a SI3112 card and a 3Ware 8006LP card and both worked without incident so there's something odd about the HT1000 driver, I suspect. It's really wierd that it would crash at exactly the same point on multiple machines.
Cheers,
I had a similar problem with a highpoint IDE 133 Raid card... CentOS found the card fine and let me setup everything but would hang right near the end. It did the same thing in 2 machines because I thought maybe the problem was the MB. I even tried different HDs but nope, it was the HP Raid card. Swapped in a Maxtor (Promise) and all was fine. I know these aren't "real" raid cards like the 3ware but they work on home file servers real well.
Scott
----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org on behalf of Chris Mauritz Sent: Fri, 5/12/2006 5:21pm To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Serverworks HT1000 chipset drivers (Supermicro H8SSL motherboard)
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Since this is just for burn in and testing, I use the default partitions that are suggested and it formats root just fine and then hangs about 90% of the way through /boot....every time on more than one machine. :-(
try installing in text mode. Keep an eye on vc#3 and vc#4 for whats going on...
I'll have to give that a try. I popped in both a SI3112 card and a 3Ware 8006LP card and both worked without incident so there's something odd about the HT1000 driver, I suspect. It's really wierd that it would crash at exactly the same point on multiple machines.
Cheers,
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Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Since this is just for burn in and testing, I use the default partitions that are suggested and it formats root just fine and then hangs about 90% of the way through /boot....every time on more than one machine. :-(
try installing in text mode. Keep an eye on vc#3 and vc#4 for whats going on...
I was able to get an install to complete in text mode (wierd), but the kernel randomly panics and wedges the machine within minutes of booting. There must be a newer driver in the FC5 kernel since that seemed to be running without incident when the machines arrived. I have a bunch of cheap Silicon Image 3112-based dual SATA cards on hand so I ended up just disabling the onboard SATA ports and used those instead. Odd....
Otherwise, the machines seem pretty darned speedy using 2gigs RAM, an Opteron 175, and dual 250gig drives.
I'm a bit torn in terms of choosing the version of CentOS for them. All this prelim testing has been with the x86_64 version. Has anyone seen any real world performance delta between x86 and x86_64 (assuming that you're not using all that extra address space)?
Cheers,
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