Shue, David CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RITB wrote:
Hello,
I have used the OFED-1.3 software to communicate with the current
cards I have. These cards come up as “MT23108” in the logs, and I am
not sure whom the manufacturer is. I was able to program the cards,
and even install MPICH2 and run tests.
I have recently obtained new IB cards from HP “*HP PCI-X 2-port 4X
Fabric (HPC) Adapter”
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&cc=id&prodTypeId=12883&prodSeriesId=460713&lang=en&cc=id
<http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&cc=id&prodTypeId=12883&prodSeriesId=460713&lang=en&cc=id>
*and these cards do not work the same. The machine boots up fine with
the card in, and shows the card as Mellanox “MT23108” also? The two
cards are visibly different in every way. Is the MT23108 a certain
platform for IB?
Yes it is. Its Mellanox PCIX cards. Maybe you need to upgrade teh FW for
the new card.
You can get the new FW and burn it using the instruction on Mellanox
web: http://www.mellanox.com/support/firmware_download.php
Your card is Dual port InfiniHost PCI-X HCA cards (Cougar Cub)
<http://www.mellanox.com/support/firmware_table_IH.php>
This is the history of what I did.
1) Staged the machine RH EL v5
2) Install the IB card
3) Boot machine up
4) Can see the card looking at “lspci” and “dmesg” but nothing in the
network area or under “ifconfig” (Just like with the first cards)
Can you send output of lspci -vv
5) I then install the OFED-1.3 software to communicate and configure
the card
6) When I go to start the card (instead of reboot but have tried both
ways) /etc/init.d/openib start, it all fails. I then look in the log
file and see a bunch of “unknown symbol…” and “disagrees…” for all
items of ib_uverbs, ib_umad,iw_cxgb3,ib_path, mlx_ib, and so on.
7) When I reboot, the machine reaches “UDEV” of the reboot stage,
hangs for a little bit, and then many errors show and the machine
won’t boot, unless I take the card out. If I uninstall the OFED
software, it will reboot fine with the card still in. The card from HP
giving me problems, does not appear to have any drivers for it. It
looks like HP supports it to work on Windows, and HPUX.
What is the machine type you use? Is it IA64?
Tziporet
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