Intel SCRZCR Controller on Tyan K7XPro Motherboard ...

[Chris Pepper]

At 12:39 AM +0200 2004/07/24, Olaf Hoyer wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>>
>>  According to the Tyan web site "Adaptec and Intel Zero-Channel RAID ready"
>>  ... has anyone successfully gotten the above MB working with the above
>>  controller?
>>
>>  We just built a new system, everything appears to work great until we plug
>>  in the ZCR, at which point, as the techie describes: "When I boot the
>>  server up with that raid card in the proper slot, it just powers itself
>>  off immediately."
>>
>>  Now, I'm pretty much ready to say to hell with it and go with s/w RAID,
>>  but I want to make sure we haven't overlooked something obvious here first
>>  ...
>
>Hmm, a quick shot: Is it the same zero-Channel card that Intel also
>sells for the Sun Fire 65x series?
>
>Then its basically a ICP-Vortex design, and I remember, that on Intel
>Mainboards you need to plug it in a special slot, because it only works
>in that slot properly.
>
>Got some time ago a 65x for a short time to test, and that card worked
>properly with 4.9R and 5.2.1R.

	For reference, here's a snip from "pciconf -l" on a SF V65x 
running RH Enterprise Linux 3 with the Intel ZCR card (bought from 
Sun):

04:08.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corp. RAID Controller
         Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 01af
         Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 48
         Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
         Expansion ROM at fe9f8000 [disabled] [size=32K]
         Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2


						Chris
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