Who's up on today's PC tech?

Tue Feb 11 11:24:30 EST 2003

Well,

FYI, I decided to return the Dell and hand-pick components for a new server
instead. Main reason is the ServeRaid issues. 

But, the ServeRaid card does work fine in a different system (Abit BX2 MB).
I have additional ServeRaid card in my home server based on a Intel SMP PII
motherboard (DK440 i think) which also works fine. Both cards have recently
been upgraded to 5.11 firmware.

I'll post an update if I figure anything out.

"Wizard" wrote:
> > Turns out my PC1600 DDR ECC memory won't work.
> 
> I believe what Mike said about the speed is correct. You need faster memory.
> 
> > Turns out my IBM ServeRaid 3L won't work either.
> > 	I/O card parity interrupt at F00:BA8A
> > 	Press blah blah blah to disable NMI
> 
> This looks like a drive error, but could actually be caused by the problem
> with the RAM if the driver uses RAM for a buffer or something. I'd swap out
> the RAM first and see if that resolves the problem. If it doesn't, then try
> swapping/removing disks and see if that works. If that doesn't work, you
> likely have a bad card or, less likely, an IRQ conflict. 'NMI' stands for
> Non-Maskable Interrupt, which are interrupts used to service asynchronous
> events on the x86. The 'parity' could be memory parity or disk parity, but
> it's not clear from the message (depending upon the implementation, the
> driver may not know which one it is).
> Grant M.
> 
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