DELL PowerEdge 6350 and 2.2.x

DELL PowerEdge 6350 and 2.2.x

Post by Masahiko Nakashiz » Fri, 25 Jun 1999 04:00:00



Hi,

My PC freezes every 3 or 4 days.
And when it freezes, I can not do anything except power-off.

Hardwares:
I'm using DELL PowerEdge 6350 with 2 Pentium II Xeon(400Mhz).
On this PC, 4 Adaptec ANA-6922A network interface cards installed.
(6 or 7 ports are connected to Macintoshes directly, and the 6350
is fast mac-file server.)
One external Ultra-Wide SCSI HDD and UPS are connected.

Softwares:
I've installed Red Hat Linux 5.2.
After normal "Server" install, I disabled sendmail and innd and
named and pcmcia, and added netatalk and dhcpd and smupsd.
And updated the kernel to 2.2.1, and updated required packages.
The kernel is compiled with SMP.

I've tried to change NICs and its driver-module, Intel PRO/100+
Management Adapter x7, and 3Com 3C905B x7.
It made no difference.

I've tried to chage the netatalk, from 1.4b2+asun2.1.0 to 2.1.3.
It also made no difference.

I've tried to chage the kernel, 2.2.1 and 2.2.5 and 2.2.9.
It also made no difference. (or getting worse ?)

One day, I watched the PC freezed, on which xosview displayed
cpus' load;   "CPU 0  100%" and "CPU 1  108%".
I can not get any other information from the PC.
It may occures when loads are very heavy.

Is there any way to run 2.2.x  SAFE  on PowerEdge 6350 ?

Thanks
--
Masahiko Nakashizu

 
 
 

DELL PowerEdge 6350 and 2.2.x

Post by Masahiko Nakashiz » Fri, 25 Jun 1999 04:00:00


Hi,

My PC freezes every 3 or 4 days.
And when it freezes, I can not do anything except power-off.

Hardwares:
I'm using DELL PowerEdge 6350 with 2 Pentium II Xeon(400Mhz).
On this PC, 4 Adaptec ANA-6922A network interface cards installed.
(6 or 7 ports are connected to Macintoshes directly, and the 6350
is fast mac-file server.)
One external Ultra-Wide SCSI HDD and UPS are connected.

Softwares:
I've installed Red Hat Linux 5.2.
After normal "Server" install, I disabled sendmail and innd and
named and pcmcia, and added netatalk and dhcpd and smupsd.
And updated the kernel to 2.2.1, and updated required packages.
The kernel is compiled with SMP.

I've tried to change NICs and its driver-module, Intel PRO/100+
Management Adapter x7, and 3Com 3C905B x7.
It made no difference.

I've tried to chage the netatalk, from 1.4b2+asun2.1.0 to 2.1.3.
It also made no difference.

I've tried to chage the kernel, 2.2.1 and 2.2.5 and 2.2.9.
It also made no difference. (or getting worse ?)

One day, I watched the PC freezed, on which xosview displayed
cpus' load;   "CPU 0  100%" and "CPU 1  108%".
I can not get any other information from the PC.
It may occures when loads are very heavy.

Is there any way to run 2.2.x  SAFE  on PowerEdge 6350 ?

Thanks
--
Masahiko Nakashizu

 
 
 

1. linux on DELL PowerEdge 6350

Last year I wrote,

after that, we bought the DELL PowerEdge 6350, with two 400MHz Xeon, and
successed to install linux (Red Hat 5.2) on it (without RAID controller).

The DELL PowerEdge 6350 can boot from CD-ROM.
There is a important point when you install.
You must set a module option when you select a SCSI adapter (Adaptec
2940).
DO NOT SELECT "Autoprobe" !
Select "Specify optoins".
What you must write in the "module option" section is
    aic7xxx=no_probe

(The option is mentioned in linux/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx. You can
find
the name "PowerEdge 6300" in that file.)

Then, you can install normally :)

But now, I have a new question.

We bought the 6350 with RAID controller.
But when I try to install RedHat 5.2, I can not select a module for it.
Is there any way to install linux on the PowerEdge 6350 with RAID ?

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