Few Qs regarding COMPAQ Proliant 6500

Few Qs regarding COMPAQ Proliant 6500

[Mario Mikocevic]

Hi,

 - on COMPAQ Proliant 6500 (P11) servers I have an embeded LCD,
   is there any kernel patch and/or user tools to use it ?

 - lately one of those servers hangs quite often

   I've changed hardware parts (mixing from other boxes) and concluded it's
   definately software, most probably kernel.
   It's a web and ftp server banged quite hard.

symptoms are complete hang without any suspicious trace in logs except one:

  just before that complete hang logs are filled with for example proftpd entries
  with exactly _same time_. I even managed once to stay logged in when hang is just about
  to happen -> date(1) kept showing some exactly the same time in the past whenever invoked
  but cat /proc/driver/rtc showed the proper time. The box refused any new connections.
  Few minutes later it hung.

Any pointers ? Patches to apply ?

I tried nmi_watchdog and noapic things, does not help.

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Re: Few Qs regarding COMPAQ Proliant 6500

[Mario Mikocevic]

> Any pointers ? Patches to apply ?

Don't you people hate to followup yourself ..

Anyway it's updated RH70 on 2.4.3 kernel !


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Re: Few Qs regarding COMPAQ Proliant 6500

[Ryan Butler]

Mario Mikocevic wrote:

>> Any pointers ? Patches to apply ?
> 
> 
> Don't you people hate to followup yourself ..
> 
> Anyway it's updated RH70 on 2.4.3 kernel !
> 
> 

You didn't mention what type of 6500 it is?  PPro?  PII? PIII?  How man 
processors installed?

We use almost exclusively proliants where I work, most 3000's, but we do 
have a 6500 that is a quad PPro 200.  I have spoke with Compaq and they 
didn't believe there was any driver
for the LCD screen nor were they going to contribute to one (this was 
about a year ago.)

The 6500 also used to freeze up a lot under NT4, but since switching to 
linux we have experienced no ill effects with it.

Ryan Butler
ADI Internet Solutions
rbutler@adiis.ent

Re: Few Qs regarding COMPAQ Proliant 6500

[Mario Mikocevic]

Hi,

> >> Any pointers ? Patches to apply ?
> > 
> > Don't you people hate to followup yourself ..
> > 
> > Anyway it's updated RH70 on 2.4.3 kernel !
> 
> You didn't mention what type of 6500 it is?  PPro?  PII? PIII?  How man 
> processors installed?

COMPAQ Proliant 6500 (P11), two PIII ->

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 499.870
cache size      : 1024 KB

Latest BIOS flashed (11/08/2000) and with 4.90 smartstart set as Linux.

> We use almost exclusively proliants where I work, most 3000's, but we do 
> have a 6500 that is a quad PPro 200.  I have spoke with Compaq and they 
> didn't believe there was any driver
> for the LCD screen nor were they going to contribute to one (this was 
> about a year ago.)

Well, I was hoping that that is changed !:)

> The 6500 also used to freeze up a lot under NT4, but since switching to 
> linux we have experienced no ill effects with it.

We have here 14 6500 and few 800 and all of them (except that one) work
fine so far.

ps
	any other relevant info avaiable on request

TIA

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