[CentOS] Re: PCI unable to handle 64bit address space for

Wed Oct 4 04:34:38 UTC 2006
RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN <luck at computerking.ca>

hello again all i checked the adaptec site and the SCSI card is 64bit and has the newest version of the firmware installed.


----- RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN <luck at computerking.ca> wrote:
> ----- Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> > RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN spake the following on 10/2/2006 3:57 PM:
> > > 
> > > ----- Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> > >> RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN spake the following on 10/2/2006 1:04 PM:
> > >>> Hello all this is my first post to this list so i would like to
> > than
> > >> you all in advance for your time and consideration.
> > >>> I am in the process of building a new server and have purchased
> > some
> > >> used hardware.  There seems to be some hardware issuses and i am
> > >> hoping nothing was damaged during shipping.  However i am in
> > contact
> > >> with intel and we are tring to figure out the exact problem via
> > >> email.
> > >>> So i have insalled centos 4 from the four CD set and have done
> > all
> > >> the updates through the GUI.  I must say a GUI in Linux land is
> > nice
> > >> have been working mostly on old FreeBSD boxes none of which have
> > GUI
> > >> installed. Anyways the above mentioned hardware is this 
> > >>> INTEL SR2300 CHASSIS 
> > >>> INTEL SE7500WV2 MAINBOARD
> > >>> INTEL (DUAL) XEON P4 2GHZ CPU
> > >>> HP 1G ECC RAM 
> > >>> ADAPTEC 29160LP SCSI CONTROLLER
> > >>> PROMISE FASTRAC 2000TX has nothing attached to it
> > >> anyhow.
> > >>> I have four Seagate Cheetas 147G 10.6K SCSI harddrive most are
> > >> firmware version 0006 (been meaning to update this to 00007
> before
> > i
> > >> go to production)
> > >>> HERE IS MY PROBLEM =======================================
> > >>>
> > >>> When i boot up the machine i get this error off the getgo
> > >>>
> > >>> PCI unable to handle 64bit address space for
> > >>>
> > >>> ==========================================================
> > >>>
> > >>> Everything seems to work fine but i am woundering before i go
> any
> > >> further should i be installing the 64bit version of Centos on
> this
> > >> machine?  Is there a 64 version of Centos? anyways any help or
> > advice
> > >> on this matter is greatly apprciated.
> > >>> ps if anyone is familiar with this mainboard and hardware setup
> i
> > >> would love some insight as to the was the BIOS error event codes
> > that
> > >> this machine keeps spiting out at me mean.
> > >>> Thank you in advance
> > >>>
> > >> Could you have a 32 bit PCI card in a 64 bit slot?
> > >> It should work, but I would suspect it is the promise card. You
> > could
> > >> try
> > >> moving it about and see what happens.
> > > 
> > > Umm it is a server board with full card hieght riser card plugged
> in
> > to what i think is the 64 bit slot on the mainboard.  Howerver
> nothing
> > is in any of the slots on the riser card.  There is also another
> > halfhieght riser card that has the adaptec SCSI card plugged into
> it
> > but that is all.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >> Also, I think that card has an onboard promise controller. So
> > maybe
> > >> try
> > >> pulling the promise card, since nothing is attached.
> > > 
> > > Pretty sure the promise controller is built into the mainboard as
> > the only card i can see plugged in is the Adaptec 29160LP.  Cannot
> > find a way to uplug or disable this card in the bios.  
> > > 
> > >> You could try any other cards that aren't needed to boot the
> > system,
> > >> adding
> > >> them one at a time until you error again.
> > > the  error is there with the onboard fasttrac card and the SCSI
> card
> > but the SCSI card is needed to boot centos.  I also tried removing
> the
> > full hieght riser card that had nothing pluged into it but still
> get
> > the same error.
> > > 
> > >  
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> > > 
> > Looking at what looks to be the board you mention, both of the
> slots
> > are
> > PCI-X. Are the riser cards the proper ones for the board?
> They came with the board fit very nice in the case almost positive
> these are the right risers.
> > As for the scsi card, it looks to be a 64 bit pci card.
> > Does the board have built-in scsi or IDE? Intel made versions with
> > either.
> built in IDE i think has a spot for a floppy and 1 ide also has two
> more ide guessing those are for the fasttrac tx2000 
> > Maybe you could boot from a live CD or floppy on the on-board
> > controller, and
> > see if it starts.
> 
> Not sure what you mean i know what a live boot CD is but would i not
> have to boot using a centos os to see if i can get the same error.  
> 
> Just incase i did not make it clear before the system does boot centos
> OK it just pauses and spits out that error everytime.
> 
>  If the only card installed is the scsi card, then I
> > would
> > have to suspect it.
> 
> The SCSI card came with the sysetem as well think it was issued by
> intel but not sure.  The only other device in the system is the built
> in fasttrax and of course the 2 intel nics and a rage something video
> card everything is built in except the SCSI.  I am going to see if
> there is a firmware update to that card somewhere but doubt it will
> help. I have updated all of the other firmware on the board and
> chassis.
>   
>  The problem is the board is tying to map in a pci
> > cards
> > address space into the memory map so the card can have i/o with the
> > rest of
> > the system. Is the system's bios up to date?
> > PCI-X is supposed to be backward compatible with PCI, but some
> things
> > just
> > don't work that way.
> > 
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