RX5670 and add-on hardware

[ItaniumBob]

I've noticed the RX5670 even refused to boot (red fault light blinks) when some hardware is plugged in. For example, I have two USB mice, the first one causes it to not boot, the other one works fine.

Also, and more importantly, some storage adapters (like the LSI SAS3442X-R) causes the same problem -- it doesn't boot, it just sits with the fault light blinking. As soon as I take the device out it works.

I really need this SAS controller to work. There are Itanium drivers for it, and its one of two PCI-X SAS options with Itanium support on the market (the other is the 8x version of the one I have).

Why does the Itanium fail to even fully boot with this device installed? But more importantly, is there any way around it? Will something like a system firmware update fix it? I am pretty desperate here, any advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

Get the management processor error logs from the machine: it will tell you *why* the fault light is blinking.

For instructions on how to access the management processor, please see:
http://docs.hp.com/en/A6837-96001/ch04s02.html#aes-126-ptn

For more information about the management processor commands, please see:
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6006/index.html

If you use a PC with terminal emulator software to access the management processor, the terminal emulator software usually has an option to capture the received data into a file. Activate this option, then use the SL command of the management processor, select the error log with no filtering. If it allows a choice of different display modes, the Text mode is the most informative one. The other modes are useful only if you are sending the dump to HP: they have the tools to decode the more compact forms of the dump.

MK

[Jesse Dougherty]

I don't think SAS is supported on the rx5670

[ItaniumBob]

That doc is very useful, however I am having difficulty still.

So I am trying to access the MP via telent. I have all three Core IO cards in. The NIC for the OS is going into my switch and works great -- Win Svr 2003 has internet access. I also have the MP NIC connected to the same switch. Or am I required to connect directly to another remote machine NIC via crossover cable? Also, from a remote machine, how do i access the MP? I can start up telnet, but what is the IP address I connect to?

Thanks

[rick jones]

I have no idea if this might be part of the problem, but HP Integrity systems will check things like inrush current on PCI slots and if a card is misbehaving will power down that slot from firmware - at least on systems with support for PCI hotplug. I've also had occasion where cards can cause the system (in this case it was Integrity blades and a non-Integrity supported mezz card) to not even post - which could very well be the behaviour on rack-mount systems without hotplug support. I cannot recall if the rx5670 supported PCI hotplug or not.

[ItaniumBob]

Thanks, I really would like to get access to the MP so I can get the logs... That doc basically says to get the MAC address of the MP board, create an arp mapping for it, ping it so that the MP board is configured, and then telnet into it. However, this is not working for me.

To remove all possible problems, I plugged the MP NIC and my PC NIC into each other using a cross over cable (also tried a hub and a switch). I changed my PC NIC to a private LAN address, 192.168.1.1 for example. Added a static arp entry for something private and non-routable: 192.168.1.2. Pinged it, no response. Tried to telnet, no response.

The MP board is actually not the one shipped with the server. I had to buy it later, but even though, I tried the MAC address on the sticker on the back of the server, and on the MP board itself. Also the MP number is in the form of 123456-7890AB, however the arp command wants it in the format of 12-34-56-78-90-AB. In case endian was an issue, I tried lots of formats... 21-43-65-87-09-BA, 56-34-21-AB-90-78, etc.

Nothing works, I just can't get a response from the machine. I know the MP board works because:

1) The LAN light on the NIC connection is enabled and detected LAN speed.
2) There is a green LED which constantly blinks on the board inside the server.
3) Pressing the "TRANSFER OF CONTROL" button on the board inside the server reboots the machine. However, I was unable to get any reaction from the "RESET" button -- not sure there will be a visible reaction though?

So this is where I am at. I need to view server logs, and also would like to update the firmware. But I can't do anything because I can't seem to access the MP. Can somebody please give me some advice here?

Thanks

[rick jones]

There should be a good old fashioned serial port on the MP too :)

With your back-to-back setup you might run a packet sniffer on the PC and see what traffic if any comes from the MP LAN port upon initial power-up. I don't recall if those older MP's supported DHCP, or if they would do a gratuitous ARP on init but it is worth a look.

[ItaniumBob]

Thanks so much for the sniffing idea. I installed NetMon and went through the steps. Assigned my local IP to 192.168.1.1, and arp mapping of 12-34-56-78-90-AB to 192.168.1.2. When I pinged, I got this response:

ARP:Request, 10.0.3.250 asks for 192.168.1.2

For some reason the MP isn't changing it's IP address (for all I know this might be a bug with the older MP firmware). It is stuck at this IP address. Once I remapped the MAC address to that IP address I've been able to telnet, and ftp update the MP firmware until eventually I did a system firmware update. Woo thanks!

Anyway on to the original question. The hardware failure... the hardware I am most interested in getting working in the RX5670 is the LSI SAS3442X-R. This card works in a different x64 server just fine. Also I am successfully using the LSI LSI20320-R-B-F in the RX5670 without issue.

For the test I fully updated all firmwares (System, BMC, MP) and I removed all other cards in expansion slots. The only cards installed were the Core IO cards. From a cold boot, I get the below log, I let it loop once before I shutdown. It is a constant loop if I leave the machine running.

I've tried this card in every single PCI-X expansion slot. I have firmly seated it (multiple times). I have used other PCI-X devices just fine in the same slots, and as I said before, I've used the offending card in other machines.

If you can give any advice I would really appreciate it! Or if you know of a different PCI-X external SAS controller which works OK inside the RX5670 I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks

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17 Jun 2009 21:24:16
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17 Jun 2009 21:24:16
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[kris rombauts]

seems that during the I/O discovery/initialization the machine experiences a MCA (hardware crash):

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SFW 0 0 0x0400008700E00000 000000FFFF00FF83 IO_LBA_INIT
SFW 0 0 0x0400008700E00000 000000FFFF01FF83 IO_LBA_INIT
SFW 0 0 0x0400008700E00000 000000FFFF02FF83 IO_LBA_INIT
SFW 0 0 0x0400008700E00000 000000FFFF03FF83 IO_LBA_INIT
SFW 0 0 0x0400008700E00000 000000FFFF04FF83 IO_LBA_INIT
SFW 0 0 0x0400008700E00000 000000FFFF05FF83 IO_LBA_INIT
SFW 0 0 0x0400008700E00000 000000FFFF06FF83 IO_LBA_INIT
SFW 0 0 0x0400008700E00000 000000FFFF07FF83 IO_LBA_INIT
SFW 0 2 0x5680028500E002F0 0000000000000000 MC_INITIALIZED_RSE
17 Jun 2009 21:23:40
SFW *7 0xC14A395EDD020310 003FA17000130300 Type-02 137001 1273857


So looks like systemfw does not communicate well with this card or vice versa. Given the RX5670 is quit old and only had support for SCSI adapters at the time and this card is rather newer (SAS) and never been a card that has been tested/supported on this system I'm afraid you're not going to get this working after the torough testing you already did to eliminate some other factors. It looks like there are indeed IA64 drivers available for that card but at systemfw level something isn't working well together it seems....


Kris

[rick jones]

I am unable to speak to the system logs - even when the rx5670 was a current system I was/am a SW guy not HW :) As for not changing its IP address, if the MP is "old enough" it does not have DHCP support and will have to have its IP set manually - from the main prompt one gets with a Ctrl-B, I would suspect "CM" and then "LC" (for Lan Config).