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smartcore p3
by Ronald G Minnich 24 Sep '02

24 Sep '02

has been running memtest for 24 hours. I am proceeding to look at pci bus configuration issues ... ron

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OK, I can finally talk about it
by Ronald G Minnich 24 Sep '02

24 Sep '02

We're building a 1024-node linuxbios cluster with Dual-P4 systems and Myrinet. No disks on the nodes. Single System Image via bproc. Monitoring with Supermon. Plus lots of other stuff we hope to be showing in the next year. LNXI is the vendor. In other words, the idea we had 3 years ago has now hit the big time: http://www.lnxi.com/cgi-bin/news/newsboy.pl?sa_01=opt_500&sub_cat=051700153… So, we did it! I mean all of us -- the people on this list. One question I keep getting from the Big Computer Vendors: "how many nodes will this sell this year? How much money?" Well, this year, linuxbios will sell at least 2500 or so dual-P4 nodes, not counting all the other types of nodes currently selling. And, though it is a small number, total linuxbios cluster node sales this year are over $16M, up from $0M last year. Anyway, thanks to all the great people on this list who have contributed code and ideas over the last 3 years. There are a lot of you, too long to list at this point, but you all know who you are. WE DID IT! ron

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Sis 530
by Nathanael Noblet 23 Sep '02

23 Sep '02

Hello, I've seen a lot of support about the Sis 630 chipset. I'm wondering how much support exists for 530 based boards? Is there documentation on how one would proceed to support a particular chipset? -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 P: (403) 288-4613 C: (403) 809-5368

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Re: My system's LCPI report
by Angelo Arifi 23 Sep '02

23 Sep '02

K, that sux! I know that intel won't continue producing RDRAM based boards since the technology is in the dump but like isn't anyone interested :) I only got this puppy and I wana play around with this. Anyone else got a mobo of my type? 82850 is the type... ya :P ----------------------------------- Angelo "Gigatron" Arifi

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Reference list of "known good boards"
by Gregg C Levine 23 Sep '02

23 Sep '02

Hello from Gregg C Levine Something strange poked me, while I was reading the exchange concerning Steve's problems with his board, and the MAC address, and CMOS settings. I can't speak to that problem, nor advise a possible solution for it, but heres a general one. Can a list be drawn up of so called, "known good boards"? This reference list, to consist of chipsets, and board manufacturers, and a comment or two, from the person who created the port. That comment to mention if the board's IDE port worked, with the targeted disk drive. Also what else was needed to make the whole business work for him, with each board setup. Basically I want to prevent the problems that Steve is having with his onboard Ethernet controller. It would also make things easier for those of us who are considering getting to this idea, on a deeper business then just building the code on a specific platform that is not the target, as I've done, several times over. Everyone, if I am asking the impossible here, then I extend an apology, but I mean well. ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )

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motherboard for vdr system
by Alessio Sangalli 23 Sep '02

23 Sep '02

Hi, I've sent this mail september 14th, but I didn't see it on the mailing list.... I try to re-send it, thank you Hi. I would like to buy a motherboard for a VDR system: http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr This software uses DVB cards to receive digital television and transforms your PC in a powerful videorecorder - dvd player - divx mp3 etc etc etc As you can imagine, a very fast boot would be very appreciate, making it possible to completely replace a standalone digital receiver. I watched around and I found a shop selling PC-CHIPS motherboards. I need an AGP slot, and two or more PCI slots for DVB-cards, plus ethernet etc. I have a bit of fear the 815 is very limited in expansion, perhaps the 830 is better for me. Do you have any advice about motherboards? I also found a page (http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142/pcchips/aka.html) where there are the pc-chips equivalents; nowadays I can very easily find ECS products which are the very same of pcchips 830 etc. I've read archive mailing list and all but I still need some more informations. Will I be able to directly boot my own linux kernel, with IDE, XFS etc support? I need a hard-disk anyway, to record movies and load vdr software, etc. bye and thank you! as

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getting DMA to work (non-linux bios related)
by GNUOrder 23 Sep '02

23 Sep '02

I was working on trying to get this box to turn on DMA for the drives and we get an error: We used the stock 2.4.18-3smp kernel from redhat 7.3 and also 2.4.19 from source. The motherboard is a dual P4 tyan, I didn't catch the model number. We double checked the DMA settings and enabled an ugly hack (their term), still no go. From what it looks like, there is something with the ide controller at boot time that prevents the kernel from being able to set DMA. >From lspci: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CA IDE U100 (rev 02) >From dmesg: PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions ICH3: (ide_setup_pci_device:) Could not enable device. Does this look like a problem with BIOS or could this chipset be one that linux doesn't fully support yet? The customer bought it and had it sent to the server farm that will be hosting it so its not available to either of us. Yes, I know, why aren't we using scsi for a server. I would if I could. GO <Jerle> [root@taenaria root]# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda <Jerle> /dev/hda: <Jerle> setting using_dma to 1 (on) <Jerle> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted <Jerle> using_dma = 0 (off) <Jerle> [root@taenaria root]# <[GNU]Order> type lspci <Jerle> [root@taenaria root]# lspci <Jerle> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. e7500 DRAM Controller (rev 02) <Jerle> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. e7500 HI_B Virtual PCI-to-PCI Bridge (F0) (rev 02) <Jerle> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub (rev 02) <Jerle> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA PCI Bridge (rev 42) <Jerle> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) <Jerle> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CA IDE U100 (rev 02) <Jerle> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus (rev 02) <Jerle> 01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) <Jerle> 01:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0c) <Jerle> 02:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 03) <Jerle> 02:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 03) <Jerle> 02:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 03) <Jerle> 02:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 03) <Jerle> 04:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) <Jerle> PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions <Jerle> ICH3: (ide_setup_pci_device:) Could not enable device. <[GNU]Order> with lspci you got that last error? <Jerle> no, that was out of the dmesg <[GNU]Order> oh <Jerle> Just reprinting for reference. <[GNU]Order> the resource collisions one too? <Jerle> yes

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PCchips ES8m
by Justin Cormack 23 Sep '02

23 Sep '02

Does anyone know anything about this? http://www.pcchips.com.tw/ES8m.html it appears to be SiS 5598 chipset, similar size to the VIA EPIA. No idea what type of performance the RiSE MP6 has. Is there Linuxbios support? (Ollie?) Is it actually shipping? Justin

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My system's LCPI report
by Angelo Arifi 23 Sep '02

23 Sep '02

Ok I did lspci -vv on my baby and well i saved the output in a text, and of course it is attached :) Also how would this function, knowing that i have linux and windows dual boot now, if i flashed my BIOS it would boot into linux only right? (ya i'd say right? lol hence the 'linuxbios' heh) Thanks guys, i find this project VERY interesting, i wish i had another computer to experiment on as well. ----------------------------------- Angelo "Gigatron" Arifi

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Re: sis630 mac address
by Andre Dias 22 Sep '02

22 Sep '02

>Anybody (ollie?) know if there is a way to re-write the eeprom? The >ifconfig command will set the mac to any value but it doesn't last through >reboots, and I did not see any code in the driver that appears to write to >the eeprom. There is a dos utility in pcchips.com site to reprogram the mac address. andre http://usuarios.uninet.com.br/~aod ----------------------------------------------

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