pe2900: pci-e card not detected

Thu Nov 13 16:24:21 CST 2008

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM,  <Stuart_Hayes at dell.com> wrote:
>
> Dell doesn't put anything in the BIOS specifically to block any storage
> controllers (or video controllers, on this system, I don't believe,
> though there have been systems that haven't worked with plug-in video
> cards in the past as I recall for technical reasons).

This is what I initially thought as well.  It's as if the slots done
even get power, or the system is blocking them at a very low level.

>
> Do you have the manufacturer and model number for the storage card that
> you have that isn't showing up?

manuf: AMS
SKU: SP-PCIE3132

not much of a page for it, but it's as close as I can come.
http://prostores2.carrierzone.com/servlet/amselectronicscom/Detail?no=785

I just wanted a simple card for esata, so we can do mass dumps of info
from the perc arrays.  The 3124 and 3132 chip are known to have
excellent linux supprot (including hotswap).

Basically, Its a silicon image 3132 using the current silicon image
firmware.  Nothing "value added" or branding from AMS to be seen.

-noah

>
> Thanks
> Stuart
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Erik Anderson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:57 PM
> To: Noah Dain; linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: pe2900: pci-e card not detected
>
> Noah - I had the exact same issue with a similar SATA card about a year
> ago. I spent many hours on the phone with Dell support, finally finding
> out that the PCIe implementation on the PowerEdge servers doesn't
> support most third-party mass storage cards.
>
> Needless to say, this frustrated me incredibly. Why would Dell
> intentionally limit the hardware devices their servers are compatible
> with? Seems pretty shady to me - perhaps a veiled attempt at forcing
> customert to the PERC cards.
>
> -Erik
>
> On 11/12/08, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I recently purchased a pci-express 1x esata card for a 2900 (silicon
>> image 3132 chip).  It's the only card in the system (besides a perc
>> 5/i).
>>
>> The card does not show up at all.  Not in the bios irq list, the OS's
>> regular kernel, nor knoppix.
>>
>> To troubleshoot:
>> - manually loaded the sata_sil24 driver, still nothing.
>> - plugged it into a workstation.  showed up and worked fine (xp and
>> knoppix).
>> - thinking that it was perhaps the card's firmware, I wiped it with a
>> utility from silicon image.
>> - with erased firmware, I plugged it into a workstation.  showed up
>> and worked fine (xp and knoppix).
>> - plugged it into the 2900: still no sign of it at all.
>> - manually loaded the sata_sil24 driver, still nothing.
>> - updated system firmware (bios, perc, backplane) and still nothing.
>>
>> -noah
>>
>>
>> --- only system info below ---
>>
>> dmidecode snippet:
>> '''
>> Base Board Information
>>         Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
>>         Product Name: 0TM757
>>         Version: A00
>>         Serial Number: ..XXXXXXXXXXXXX.
>> '''
>> lspci:
>> '''
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller
>
>> Hub (rev 12) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset
>
>> PCI Express
>> x4 Port 2 (rev 12)
>> 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
>> x4 Port 3 (rev 12)
>> 00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
>> x4 Port 4 (rev 12)
>> 00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
>> x4 Port 5 (rev 12)
>> 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
>> x8 Port 6-7 (rev 12)
>> 00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
>> x4 Port 7 (rev 12)
>> 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset DMA
>> Engine (rev 12) 00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series
>> Chipset Error Reporting Registers (rev 12)
>> 00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Error
>> Reporting Registers (rev 12)
>> 00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Error
>> Reporting Registers (rev 12) 00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation
>> 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers (rev 12) 00:13.0 Host bridge:
>> Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers (rev 12)
>> 00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD
>> Registers (rev 12) 00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series
>> Chipset FBD Registers (rev 12) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation
>> 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 09) 00:1d.0
>> USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI
>> USB Controller #1 (rev 09)
>> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
>
>> UHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 09)
>> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
>
>> UHCI USB Controller #3 (rev 09)
>> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
>
>> UHCI USB Controller #4 (rev 09)
>> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
>
>> EHCI USB2 Controller (rev 09) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation
>> 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation
>> 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 09)
>> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE
>> Controller (rev
>> 09)
>> 01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80333 Segment-A PCI
>> Express-to-PCI Express Bridge
>> 01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80333 Segment-B PCI
>> Express-to-PCI Express Bridge 02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Dell
>> PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5 04:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom
>> EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev c3) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller:
>> Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
>> 06:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express
>> Upstream Port (rev 01)
>> 06:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to
>> PCI-X Bridge (rev 01) 07:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation
>> 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E1 (rev 01) 07:01.0 PCI
>> bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port
>> E2 (rev 01) 08:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X
>> Bridge (rev c3) 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation
>> NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) 10:0d.0 VGA compatible
>> controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02) '''
>>
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