Topic: Dell PowerEdge 1600 IDE with SME 5.6

[James Mansell]

DigyDK wrote:
>
> hi there,
> some news about the raid configuration and disk capacity ?
> does everything work well ? because i want to buy such a
> server too.
>
> Guy

I'm using SME's RAID so there's no RAID Card in it. Just two identical SCSI Drives.

I found that 5.5 didn't work caused me  problems recognising the SCSI drives but 5.6 worked fine.

James Mansell

[Shailesh Tyagi]

hello everyone,
I am wondering whether the contributed e100/e1000 driver works with new S875WP1-E board, it has 82547EI for e1000 and 82562ET 10/100. intel says it works only with Redhat 8.0.
Thanks
Shailesh

[Charlie Brady]

Shailesh Tyagi wrote:

> I am wondering whether the contributed e100/e1000 driver
> works with new S875WP1-E board, it has 82547EI for e1000 and
> 82562ET 10/100. intel says it works only with Redhat 8.0.

Chances are it'll will "just work" with 6.0beta2. Why don't you try it, and let us know how you get on?

Charlie

[Shailesh Tyagi]

Thanks charlie,
first let me try it on 5.6 using the drivers available on www.myezeserver.com/contribs/dmay/mitel/updates. i will let you know if it doesnt work. and i don't think it will work on 6.02 beta also cose it is also built on RH 7.3 base.
rgs
Shailesh

[Charlie Brady]

Shailesh Tyagi wrote:

> first let me try it on 5.6 using the drivers available on
> www.myezeserver.com/contribs/dmay/mitel/updates. i will let
> you know if it doesnt work. and i don't think it will work on
> 6.02 beta also cose it is also built on RH 7.3 base.

The latest RedHat 7.3 updated kernel is much newer than the original RH 8 kernel.  Anything which works with RH8 can be expected to work with 6.0b2.

Charlie

[Shailesh Tyagi]

Thanks for this info, so you think i should not waste my time on trying it on 5.6?

[Charlie Brady]

Shailesh Tyagi wrote:

> Thanks for this info, so you think i should not waste my time
> on trying it on 5.6?

In my opinion, yes.

Charlie

[Shailesh Tyagi]

hi charlie,
I have tried the 6.0 beta2 but no luck. still it is not recognising the network controlers. any other suggestions???
Thanks
shaileshCharlie Brady wrote:
>
> Shailesh Tyagi wrote:
>
> > Thanks for this info, so you think i should not waste my time
> > on trying it on 5.6?
>
> In my opinion, yes.
>
> Charlie

[Greg Zartman]

> The e1000 network driver is already included, just isn't
> autodetected in 5.6. Try:
> /sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 e1000
> /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
> /sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
> and see how that goes.

CFYI,

I installed SME 5.6 on a Dell server with the e1000 about a month and a half ago.   The procedure that Charlie outlines above is exactly what one needs to do to get the onboard LAN adaptor working.  

Regards,

Greg Zartman

[Clive]

I am new to Linux and SME. I deal with Microsoft all day.!!
I am trying to install 5.5 SME onto a Dell 600SC.
I have the network card problem that has been discussed in this thread.
I still have no clue as to howto install the rpm file that I have downloaded onto a floppy. Could anyone help with a step by step procedure.

Also a little more alarming. When I reboot, the software will not load due to an "IRC probe failed" error which stops the hard disks from being detected.
then a continual
hda : lost interrupt
hda : lost interrupt
hda : lost interrupt etc.

I can start the system if when the Mitel logo screen appears I sellect the "esmith up" option in stead of the "esmith" option which appears to be the default.
Any Ideas ??

Thks Clive

[Clive]

OK guys I fixed the Network Card.
But the botting problem I have no idea about.

[Brascoe]

Clive wrote:
>
> OK guys I fixed the Network Card.
> But the botting problem I have no idea about.

Didn't you receive the server with the Megaraid ATA CERC RAID controller?

I'm running SME 5.5 on such server with the disks attached on the Megaraid controller, with no problems.

The SME 5.5 don't recognize the IDE controller on the motherboard, there isn't any problems with SME 5.6

/ Brascoe

[Clive]

Thanks for the answer.
Got two systems 1 with controller for RAID 5 with Win2003
The machine for Linux is minimum config Software RAID 1

When one thinks in Windows mode for so long trying to deal with Linux is hard.

Clive