[clug-talk] Fwd: asus P5Q
Gustin Johnson
gustin at echostar.ca
Sat Nov 1 12:49:36 PDT 2008
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There may be errors in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog
I would also make sure that the BIOS is up to date. You can get your
bios version from within Linux with the following command:
dmidecode -s bios-version
Check the output against the available downloads from the motherboard
maker's website.
Chris q wrote:
> here's the output, I'm not exactly sure how to read it. How would I
> determine if the mobo is faulty?
>
>
> root at serverv2:/home/chris# lspci
> -t
>
> -[0000:00]-+-00.0
>
>
> +-01.0-[0000:01]----00.0
>
>
> +-1a.0
>
>
> +-1a.1
>
>
> +-1a.2
>
> +-1a.7
> +-1b.0
> +-1c.0-[0000:03]--
> +-1c.5-[0000:02]----00.0
> +-1d.0
> +-1d.1
> +-1d.2
> +-1d.7
> +-1e.0-[0000:04]--+-00.0
> | \-03.0
> +-1f.0
> +-1f.2
> \-1f.3
> root at serverv2:/home/chris# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller
> (rev 03)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root
> Port (rev 03)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #4
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #5
> 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #6
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2
> EHCI Controller #2
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio
> Controller
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express
> Port 1
> 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express
> Port 6
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #1
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #2
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #3
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2
> EHCI Controller #1
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface
> Controller
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA
> AHCI Controller
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600
> GT] (rev a1)
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
> Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
> 04:00.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA
> 300 TX2plus) (rev 02)
> 04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:03 AM, bogi <khangyi at shaw.ca
> <mailto:khangyi at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>
> There is of course the slight chance that you just got yourself a
> faulty mobo.
> try lspci and lspci -t , should give you some idea regarding the bus
> structure. But your raid should not fail unless there is a hardware
> issue,
> specially that you built the raid in the first place.
> cheers
> Szemir
> On October 31, 2008 17:31, Chris q wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Chris <chris at quilley.net <mailto:chris at quilley.net>>
> > Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM
> > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] asus P5Q
> > To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk at clug.ca>>
> >
> >
> > No, it was still failing using that port, so I bought a sata
> adaptor and am
> > putting the boot drive on that. If the raid array continues to
> fail after
> > putting all six drives on the normal sata ports I'm taking the
> whole thing
> > back. I would still really like to know how those drive xpress
> ports are
> > wired though.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Mark Carlson
> <carlsonmark at gmail.com <mailto:carlsonmark at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > So it's fixed now?
> > >
> > > -Mark C.
> > >
> > > On 10/31/08, Chris q <quilley at gmail.com
> <mailto:quilley at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > > Nothing is plugged into the ezbackup port any more. When it
> was failing
> > >
> > > one
> > >
> > > > of the six drives were plugged into the orange port, which is
> the first
> > >
> > > of
> > >
> > > > the two drive xpress ports ( the only one that works in normal
> mode).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Mark Carlson
> <carlsonmark at gmail.com <mailto:carlsonmark at gmail.com>>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > On 10/31/08, Chris q <quilley at gmail.com
> <mailto:quilley at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > > > > I guess it would be drive xpert. Basically, there are 8
> sata ports
> > > > > > on
> > > >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > > > > motherboard and you can turn two of them into a normal
> sata port,
> > > > > > or
> > > >
> > > > have
> > > >
> > > > > > them basically raid 1'd
> > > > > > I had it set as a normal port to software raid 6 drives
> and have
> > > > > > one
> > > >
> > > > extra
> > > >
> > > > > > drive seperate for / and /home. I don't really need help with
> > >
> > > software
> > >
> > > > raid,
> > > >
> > > > > > I'm pretty familiar. I just am trying to figure out why the
> > > > > > assembly
> > > >
> > > > keeps
> > > >
> > > > > > failing, and the only thing I can think of is asus doing
> something
> > > >
> > > > stupid
> > > >
> > > > > > like piggy backing their drive xpert on one of the six
> sata ports
> > > > > > on
> > > >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > > > > board already on the main controller.
> > > > >
> > > > > Where do you have the drives plugged in?
> > > > >
> > > > > Port 1 (the second port) on the "Sil5723 SATA controller is
> used for
> > > >
> > > > EZ-back"
> > > >
> > > >
> http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=2200046
> <http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=2200046>
> > > >
> > > > > You may not need help with your software RAID, but without
> knowing
> > > > > exactly what you are doing all any of us can do is guess.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise
> <http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise><http://www
> > > >.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise
> <http://catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise>>
> > > >
> > > > > -Mark C.
> > > > >
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