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. > > > > > > > > >> -- > > >> > > >> MailScanner is like deodorant... > > >> You hope everybody uses it, and > > >> you notice quickly if they don't!!!! > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> CentOS mailing list > > >> CentOS at centos.org > > >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > > > MailScanner is like deodorant... > > You hope everybody uses it, and > > you notice quickly if they don't!!!! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- > Computer King/CaNMail > > http://www.computerking.ca http://www.canmail.org > > Sales, Service, and Hosting > Email, Data, and Web Packages > Ask about web design specials > > Affiliates > http://www.computerking.ca/pages/links/affiliates/affiliates.htm > > Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology. -- R. 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