Mailing List Archive: Devices on the other side of a Craylink

Devices on the other side of a Craylink

Aug 29, 2006, 11:21 AM

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Hi,

I just acquired a rackmount Origin 2000 (2 Craylink nodes, 8 CPU:s per node).
When booting on the RC5 LiveCD, I can only use devices connected to the first
node. Linux doesn't say anything about the network interface and SCSI disks
connected to the second node at all. However, it uses all 16 CPU:s. Is this
expected? Will I have to move all the SCSI disks to the first node? Will a
newer kernel see everything?

Unfortunately, I don't remember if the PROM said it found all the disks when
it probed the SCSI buses, and I prefer not to reboot the machine without
being in the server room, so checking that might have to wait a day or two.

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Karl-Johan "Creideiki" Karlsson

Re: Devices on the other side of a Craylink [ In reply to ]

creideiki+gentoo-mips at ferretporn

Aug 31, 2006, 12:51 PM

Post #2 of 3 (1810 views)

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On Tuesday 29 August 2006 20:21, Karl-Johan 'Creideiki' Karlsson wrote:
> When booting on the RC5 LiveCD, I can only use devices connected to
> the first node. Linux doesn't say anything about the network interface and
> SCSI disks connected to the second node at all.

I installed a system using only the disks connected to the first node, and
when I boot that (`uname -r` = 2.6.17.10-mipsgit-20060618) I see all devices,
both SCSI disks and network cards. Perhaps the LiveCD kernel is too old?

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Karl-Johan "Creideiki" Karlsson

Re: Devices on the other side of a Craylink [ In reply to ]

kumba at gentoo

Sep 1, 2006, 8:41 PM

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Karl-Johan 'Creideiki' Karlsson wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 20:21, Karl-Johan 'Creideiki' Karlsson wrote:
>> When booting on the RC5 LiveCD, I can only use devices connected to
>> the first node. Linux doesn't say anything about the network interface and
>> SCSI disks connected to the second node at all.
>
> I installed a system using only the disks connected to the first node, and
> when I boot that (`uname -r` = 2.6.17.10-mipsgit-20060618) I see all devices,
> both SCSI disks and network cards. Perhaps the LiveCD kernel is too old?

Most likely. An annoying side effect of the passage of time is that things tend
to "age". You should see what it does to humans. Not really pretty.

On the plus side, newer CDs will be forth coming soon, possibly another week or
two, and they'll include 2.6.17.10 (maybe higher, depends on how many more
secbumps it gets)

--Kumba

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