I just picked up a two-brick Prism and have some trouble getting it to work.
It's a standard configuration where one brick has an I/O board and the other brick has two FireGL cards.
There are several problems:
First, I can't get an answer from the main bricks serial port. I do get to the L1 on the brick with the graphics cards. config shows both bricks:
first, when it boots up it says:
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ALERT: VRM not OK: type CPU C 12V, number 2
however it seems to work.
001c04-L1>power vrm
VRM Type Location Present Okay
-------------- -------- ------- -------
CPU A 12V 1 passed passed
CPU C 12V 2 passed FAILED
NODE 2.5V on board passed passed
NODE CPU A on board passed passed
NODE CPU C on board passed passed
when it boots up it disables 4GB of memory:
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EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62]
Partition 0: Enabled Disabled
CBricks 2 Nodes 4 0
RBricks 0 CPUs 4 0
IOBricks 2 Mem(GB) 8 4
How can I find out why it's disabled?
I also can't get an output on the serial port of the main brick with the I/O board. Is this normal behavior?
I can only access the L1 on the brick with the graphics cards.
The systems seems to detect only two of its four SATA disks:
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EFI version 1.10 [14.62] Build flags: EFI64 Running on Intel(R) Itanium Processor EFI_DEBUG
EFI IA-64 SDV/FDK (No BIOS ) [Jun 15 2006 14:26:15] - INTEL
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet EFI driver v8.1.1
Seg: 1 Bus: 0 Dev: 1 Func: 0 - SGI IOC4 ATA detected: Firmware Rev 83
Ata(Primary,Master) MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8178 PZ21
Seg: 1 Bus: 0 Dev: 3 Func: 0 - Vitesse Serial ATA detected: Firmware Rev 1
Sata(Pun1,Lun0) ST3200827AS 3.AAD 4ND212Z3
Sata(Pun2,Lun0) ST3200827AS 3.AAD 4ND21QHM
Is it true that disk drives can only be used when a PCI I/O module is installed?
In that case, I wonder why this Prism has four disks installed.
I don't have a proper monitor at hand right now. If possible I would like to install the original SuSE Linux on the system. Does anybody know if it can be installed with serial console, but still later use the graphics?
thanks,
Dennis